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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.


quayside

/ ˈkiːˌsaɪd /

noun

  1. the edge of a quay along the water


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Example Sentences

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.

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.

Crates lined up on the quayside at Jaffa, chap ticking them off in a book, navvies handling them barefoot in soiled dungarees.

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