Definition of pier

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Pier (n.) Any detached mass of masonry, whether insulated or supporting one side of an arch or lintel, as of a bridge; the piece of wall between two openings..

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Butment :: Butment (n.) A buttress of an arch; the supporter, or that part which joins it to the upright pier..
Sword :: Sword (n.) An offensive weapon, having a long and usually sharp/pointed blade with a cutting edge or edges. It is the general term, including the small sword, rapier, saber, scimiter, and many other varieties..
Terebrate :: Terebrate (v. t.) To perforate; to bore; to pierce.
Sharp :: Sharp (superl.) Affecting the sense as if pointed or cutting, keen, penetrating, acute: to the taste or smell, pungent, acid, sour, as ammonia has a sharp taste and odor; to the hearing, piercing, shrill, as a sharp sound or voice; to the eye, instantaneously brilliant, dazzling, as a sharp flash..
Dartle :: Dartle (v. t. & i.) To pierce or shoot through; to dart repeatedly: -- frequentative of dart.
Pinking :: Pinking (n.) The act of piercing or stabbing.
Lance :: Lance (v. t.) To open with a lancet; to pierce; as, to lance a vein or an abscess..
Thread :: Thread (v. t.) To pass or pierce through as a narrow way; also, to effect or make, as one's way, through or between obstacles; to thrid..
Poignant :: Poignant (a.) Pricking; piercing; sharp; pungent.
Javelin :: Javelin (v. t.) To pierce with a javelin.
Snithy :: Snithy (a.) Sharp; piercing; cutting; -- applied to the wind.
Snag :: Snag (n.) A tree, or a branch of a tree, fixed in the bottom of a river or other navigable water, and rising nearly or quite to the surface, by which boats are sometimes pierced and sunk..
Rapiered :: Rapiered (a.) Wearing a rapier.
Keen :: Keen (superl.) Piercing; penetrating; cutting; sharp; -- applied to cold, wind, etc, ; as, a keen wind; the cold is very keen..
Enfiled :: Enfiled (p. a.) Having some object, as the head of a man or beast, impaled upon it; as, a sword which is said to be enfiled of the thing which it pierces..
Pounce :: Pounce (v. t.) To strike or seize with the talons; to pierce, as with the talons..
Jetty :: Jetty (n.) A wharf or pier extending from the shore.
Pertusate :: Pertusate (a.) Pierced at the apex.
Poniard :: Poniard (v. t.) To pierce with a poniard; to stab.
Perforation :: Perforation (n.) A hole made by boring or piercing; an aperture.
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