pierhead

[peer-hed]

pier·head

[peer-hed]
noun
1.
the outermost end of a pier or wharf.
2.
(in the Great Lakes area) a breakwater.

Origin:
1675–85; pier + head
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Pierhead is always a great word to know.
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the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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