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jetty

noun as in pier

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“Sneaker waves can unexpectedly run significantly farther up the beach than normal, including over rocks and jetties,” the weather service advised.

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Robert Smithson had bulldozed dirt and rocks to build a spiral jetty coiling out into Utah’s Great Salt Lake.

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Kevin King, 57, was under the influence of alcohol when he crashed his boat — the 48-foot-long “Four Kings” — into the jetty, prosecutors alleged Wednesday.

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"Stay off jetties, piers, and other waterside infrastructure," the National Weather Service warned in a release on Thursday.

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The only way to get to the islands was by ferries but, as we later learnt, an estimated 94% of the jetties in the region were damaged.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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