landing stage

noun

Definitions

  1. A floating platform attached at one end to a wharf so as to rise and fall with the tide,…

    A floating platform attached at one end to a wharf so as to rise and fall with the tide, and thus facilitate passage between the wharf and a vessel lying beside the stage.

    • Close by, across the Parade, are the Customs Examination Rooms and the floating landing stage.
    • He helped Crabbe along to the rough landing-stage, a groaning Crabbe sorry for himself, a Crabbe with a bandaged foot, looking like a gouty uncle[.]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for landing stage. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA