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landing stage en · NOUN

Meanings

1. 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. 1950 June, K. Longbottom, “Liverpool Riverside Station”, in Railway Magazine, page 372:
   • 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[.] 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 576:

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Relateds

landing place

Translations (10)

nn bryggje (platform) · nn flytebrygge (platform) · scn sbarcaturi (platform) · es desembarcadero (platform) · fr débarcadère (platform) · nb brygge (platform) · nb flytebrygge (platform) · nn flytebryggje (platform) · nn brygge (platform) · ca desembarcador (platform)