quayside

[ kee-sahyd, key-, kwee- ]

noun
  1. the area bordering and around a quay or quays.

  2. the edge of a quay where it meets the water.

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How to use quayside in a sentence

  • I edged away from him without being observed, and dodged into the fruit bazaar among the quayside streets to right of the bridge.

  • Davies just threw the kedge over, and it just got a grip in time to check our momentum and save our bowsprit from the quayside.

    The Riddle of the Sands | Erskine Childers
  • Many of the trains were run directly to the quayside; in other cases the soldiers marched through the streets.

  • Every one called him Ogmund Dint, even the boys who played about on the quayside.

    Frey and His Wife | Maurice Henry Hewlett
  • Crates lined up on the quayside at Jaffa, chap ticking them off in a book, navvies handling them barefoot in soiled dungarees.

    Ulysses | James Joyce

British Dictionary definitions for quayside

quayside

/ (ˈkiːˌsaɪd) /


noun
  1. the edge of a quay along the water

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