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What is a pier?

What is a pier? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A raised platform built from the shore out over water, supported on piles; used to secure, or provide access to shipping; a jetty.
  2. A similar structure, especially at a seaside resort, used to provide entertainment.
  3. (US, nautical) A structure that projects tangentially from the shoreline to accommodate ships; often double-sided.
  4. A structure supporting the junction between two spans of a bridge.
  5. (architecture) A rectangular pillar, or similar structure, that supports an arch, wall or roof.
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The yacht lay alongside the pier at a sharp cant, its left side decks awash with water.
It was a mixture between big motorboats, small sailing boats and on one pier eight water scooters were standing on a platform.
Most are small, less than three or four feet, but occasionally a pier or jetty angler soaking a big bait hooks a fish with real shoulders.
I had a very strong urge to bean her with a rock, because underneath the pier is littered with big ones, but I resisted.
I used to stand on the pier just down there and I used to watch them go past, and it was like Thomas the tank engine.
You don't get big fish without baitfish, and the latter are showing in better numbers recently beneath the rebuilt pier at San Luis Pass.

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