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pierhead en · NOUN

Etymology

From pier + head.

Meanings

1. The end of a pier farthest from shore.
   • Here on Papay folk will speak slowly and sympathetically in a one-to-one conversation with a 'soothmoother', but if you're on the fringes of a pierhead debate about the price of cattle or the weather, then you'll soon be submerged beneath a fast-flowing terminological tidal wave. 1996, Jim Hewitson, Clinging to the Edge: Journals from an Orkney Island, page 41:
   • It came floating like a tethered cloud past the little white toy-like lighthouse at the pierhead. 1976, Angela Carter, “My Father's House”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 21:

Forms

Deriveds

pierhead line