landing stage

English

Noun

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[.]

Translations

platform

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: brygge (no) m or f, flytebrygge m or f

  Nynorsk: brygge f, bryggje f, flytebrygge f, flytebryggje f

• Sicilian: sbarcaturi m