- plural of pier.
piers
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Something like that happened during the historic storm of late January 1983, which occurred during one of the strongest El Niños on record and battered the coast up and down California, damaging many piers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
“It’s not implausible to see some of the piers wiped out, or breakwaters or jetties.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
Havana Docks says the cruise companies have illegally profited from docks and piers that Fidel Castro seized after the Cuban Revolution.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
It consists of a wide exedra—a curved, high-backed bench—flanked by piers and supporting eight columns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
They passed on, Gollum in front and the hobbits now side by side, up the long ravine between the piers and columns of torn and weathered rock, standing like huge unshapen statues on either hand.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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