Pier

Noun

 * 1) A raised platform built from the shore out over water, supported on piles; used to secure, or provide access to shipping; a jetty.
 * 2) A similar structure, especially at a seaside resort, used to provide entertainment.
 * 3) 🇺🇸 A structure that projects tangentially from the shoreline to accommodate ships; often double-sided.
 * 4) A structure supporting the junction between two spans of a bridge.
 * 5)  A rectangular pillar, or similar structure, that supports an arch, wall or roof.

Adjectives for Pier
elaborate; compound; tropical; much-used.

Verbs for Pier
anchor at—; buffet—; construct at—; dock at—; destroy—; enclose—; land at—; lash to—; miss—; moor to—; nuzzle into—; offer —; pound—; reserve—; spray—; wash away—; —extends; —projects; —protects;—stretches.

Thesaurus
abutment, anchorage, anchorage ground, arc-boutant, arcade, atlas, baluster, balustrade, banister, bank, base, basin, beam, berth, breakwater, bulkhead, bulwark, buttress, buttress pier, buttressing, caryatid, colonnade, colonnette, column, dado, die, dock, dockage, dockyard, dry dock, embankment, flying buttress, footstalk, groin, hanging buttress, harbor, harborage, haven, jack, jetty, jutty, landing, landing place, landing stage, levee, marina, mole, moorings, newel-post, pedestal, pedicel, peduncle, peristyle, pier buttress, pilaster, pile, piling, pillar, plinth, pole, port, portico, post, protected anchorage, quay, queen-post, rampart, retaining wall, road, roads, roadstead, seaport, seawall, shaft, shipyard, shoulder, slip, socle, staff, stalk, stanchion, stand, standard, stem, subbase, support, surbase, telamon, trunk, upright, wharf, wharfage

Translations

 * Bulgarian: пристан, кей
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: μώλος (mólos), αποβάθρα (apovathra)
 * Hebrew:


 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese: 桟橋, 波止場,
 * Latin:
 * Polish: pomost,
 * Portuguese: píer
 * Russian: пристань (prístan’), пирс (pirs)
 * Spanish:, , malecón
 * Swedish:


 * Dutch:
 * French:


 * Japanese: 桟橋
 * Polish:


 * Polish:


 * Esperanto:
 * French:
 * German: Brückenpfeiler
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 橋脚


 * Norwegian: brupilar
 * Polish:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish: (de puente)


 * Bulgarian: колона, стълб
 * French:
 * German:
 * Italian:


 * Japanese:
 * Polish:
 * Russian: столб (stolb), простенок (prosténok)
 * Spanish:


 * : 碼頭, 码头 (mǎtóu)
 * : 교각 (gyogak)


 * : cais

Anagrams

 * peri
 * ripe

Dutch

 * still not all senses and etymologies

Noun

 * 1)  A worm, earthworm (in Flanders)

Etymology 2
English pier

Noun

 * 1)  A pier, jetty

Etymology 3
Unknown; Flanders only

Alternative forms

 * piere (obsolete)

Noun

 * 1)  A physical trap
 * 2)  A figurative trap, ambush
 * 3)  A place one is trapped in:
 * 4) a prison
 * 5) a rabbit den

Derived terms

 * pieren
 * (trap types) steenpier(e), vliegepier(e)
 * pierkoorde

Anagrams

 * prei, riep

Noun

 * 1) pier

Noun

 * 1)  beer, ale