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landing stage

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landing stage
n
(Transport / Nautical Terms) a platform used for landing goods and passengers from a vessel
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Noun1.landing stage - platform from which passengers and cargo can be (un)loaded
landing place, landing - structure providing a place where boats can land people or goods
platform - a raised horizontal surface; "the speaker mounted the platform"
Translations
landing stage n → pontile m da sbarco
landing stage n → pontile m da sbarco


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We should get to the Landing Stage in time to meet the WEST AFRICAN, and catch Mr.
The Lair of the White Worm by Stoker, Bram View in context
Her family, one of the wealthiest in Devonshire, cut up rough about it, and we eloped--are eloping rather, for on the day that you and I walked to the landing stage to go aboard this steamer she and her faithful servant, a negress, passed us, driving to the ship Morrow.
Can Such Things Be? by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
He was walking across the lawn toward the landing stage on the river, and still felt all around him, under the dome of golden evening, an Old World savor and reverberation in that riverhaunted garden.
The Man Who Knew Too Much by Chesterton, Gilbert K. View in context
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