Definition of "piers" []

• Plural form of pier. (noun)

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• "Within the city 's draft Comprehensive Waterfront Plan, the recommendation for the piers is now to leave them as an industrial use, as with a set of other districts around the city such as Sunset Park and the Brooklyn Navy Yard."
• "Most shark fishing from the ocean fishing piers is done at night."
• "One of the piers is hollow, and a steep and narrow staircase inside it leads up to a small chapel in the roof, with a window giving into the church – said to have been made for the royal family to hear Mass from, though how they managed to climb on a stool and squeeze through that door and up that staircase in those royal robes I do not know."