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  • adjective Without a pier.

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pier +‎ -less

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  • Nothing but wretched pierless ferries, let to poor cottars, who rowed, or hauled, or pushed a crazy boat across, or more commonly got their wives to do it.

    The Life of Thomas Telford Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 1867

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