Moby-Dick: Pier-heads
Pier-heads
- the outward or seaward end of a pier or dock
The word pier-heads appears in the following sentences from Moby-Dick:
Chapter 1 > Paragraph 3 > Sentence 4:
Some leaning against the spiles; some seated upon the pier-heads; some looking over the bulwarks of ships from China; some high aloft in the rigging, as if striving to get a still better seaward peep.
Concordance for the word pier-heads from Moby-Dick.
