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pier-head
[f. pier n.2 2 + head n.1 18 b.]
1. The outward or seaward end of a pier.
a1682Sir T. Browne Wks. (1836) I. 346 At a competent distance from the peere head. 1779G. Keate Sk. fr. Nat. (ed. 2) II. 199 Half Margate thronged the Pier-Head. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. l. (1856) 487 Our noble friend Henry Grinnell was the first to welcome us on the pier-head.
2. attrib. and Comb.
a. pier-head jump, (a) (see quot. 1892); (b) an act of leaving a ship as it is about to sail; (c) a person who joins a ship as it is leaving the dock; hence pier-head jumper.
1892Labour Commission Gloss., Pier-head Jump, the act of joining a ship as she is leaving the dock, owing to some of the (signed) crew not fulfilling their engagements. 1899Daily News 11 Sept. 7/5 A pier-head man..hearing a crash through the pier, hastily dressed, and..rowed to the spot. 1927F. Shaw Knocking Around 65 One man was short: he'd done a pierhead jump. 1928F. P. Harlow Making of Sailor 229 All the other members of the crew had made a pier-head jump during the night. 1931S. W. Ryder Blue Water Ventures iii. 40 At the last minute the scallywags who could not get a ship in the ordinary way had to be accepted; these ‘pier-head jumpers’ being pushed on board by the boarding-house runners as the steamer was moving out of dock. 1936B. Adams Ships & Women xi. 238 Often among pierhead jumps were rattling good sailors. 1938E. Linklater Child under Sail 169 There were no pier-head jumpers to be found, and we had to sail a man short. 1945Seafarers' Log 13 July 6/4 Fred took a few minutes to call his family, and then made the tanker on a pierhead jump. 1967S. Waters Indentures Indorsed 117 He had not passed the doctor, but was a pier-head jump. 1978Navy News Dec. 6/1 The cartoon on page 14 reminded me of a pierhead jump I had from the Defiance in 1940.
b. Designating a type of variety entertainment traditionally associated with summer shows on piers in seaside resorts.
1932Statesman (Calcutta) 2 Aug., There is always a public, and not only a pierhead public, for a thoroughly good pierrot show. 1960Times 2 Mar. 13/2 Here was good old bandsman's pier-head stuff. 1963Times 8 Feb. 14/5 Some ambiguous remarks..—in the best early pierhead manner—suggesting that he is either describing the chassis of a car technically or that of a young woman vulgarly. |