landing stage

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landing stage (plural landing stages)

  1. (nautical) A floating platform attached at one end to a wharf so as to rise and fall with the tide, and thus facilitate passage between the wharf and a vessel lying beside the stage.
    • 1950 June, K. Longbottom, “Liverpool Riverside Station”, in Railway Magazine, page 372:
      Close by, across the Parade, are the Customs Examination Rooms and the floating landing stage.
    • 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 576:
      He helped Crabbe along to the rough landing-stage, a groaning Crabbe sorry for himself, a Crabbe with a bandaged foot, looking like a gouty uncle[.]

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