PIERS

"PIERS" is a plural of: pier.

"PIERS" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "stone", "stone".

Date "PIERS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Crosswords: PIERS

Books

• The Vision of Piers Plowman: A Critical Edition of the B-Text Based on Trinity College Cambridge MS B.15.17 (Everyman's Library (Paper)) (reference)

• Piers the Plowman: A Critical Edition of the Aversion (reference)

• Piers Plowman: The A-Text: An Alliterative Verse Translation (Pegasus Paperbooks) (reference)

• Piers Anthony's Visual Guide to Xanth (reference)

• Lady Meed-The Art of Piers Plowman (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Compact Piers (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

I think I'll take this thing for a spin NOAA diver gets ready for a spin on a tourist moped At the end of the cruise ship piers in Nassau. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

A view over the tanker piers of downtown Boston. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Piers, looking down river from Benedict. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Fuel pumps for fishing vessels at the commercial piers. Credit: Fisheries.

Hoists for use by fishing vessels at the commercial piers. Credit: Fisheries.

Local piers provide access to recreational fishing for thousands throughout the United States. Here two fishermen are trying for Pacific mackerel off the Newport Pier on a foggy day. Credit: Fisheries.

Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve Harbor seal - Phoca vitulina. This marine mammal can be seen hauling out on rocks and piers during the winter months in Narragansett Bay. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Siphonophores are floating cousins to hydroids common on rocks and piers. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

A view of filling a bulk carrier ship with phosphate at the piers at Nauru as seen from the NOAA Ship RONALD H. BROWN. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Church of Saint Nicholas Mokryi (1665-72), interior, ceiling vaults and west piers, with frescoes (1672), Yaroslavl', Russia. Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Economic History

Saudi Arabia

These companies are also expected to invest in order to upgrade and enhance the flow of goods through these piers. (references)

Saudi Arabia

As part of its privatization drive, the Saudi Ports Authority sub-contracted the operation and management at a number of ports whereby Saudi companies will operate six piers for the handling of bulk and container cargo. (references)

Saudi Arabia

The network comprises eight major ports with 183 piers and three smaller ports. (references)

Travel

Thailand

Thailand has coastlines on the Gulf of Thailand and on the Andaman Sea with 58 sea channels, 40 operational seaports and 90 fishing trawler piers . Out of 6,000 kilometers of navigable inland waterways, 1,750 kilometers can be used as transportation routes for bulk cargo . Thailand offers the advantages of low-priced handling, cheap labor and inexpensive storage costs. (references)

Nicaragua

El Bluff has basic piers and handles limited cargo. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "PIERS": baffle piers. Additional references.

Danish

moler (jetties, staging), hoefder (jetties). (various references)

Dutch

hoofden in zee (jetties). (various references)

Finnish

este (check, fence, hindrance, hurdle, impediment, obstacle, obstruction, restraint), betonimonoliitti (baffle piers, blocks, control blocks, floor blocks, friction blocks), betonilohko (baffle piers, blocks, control blocks, floor blocks, friction blocks). (various references)

French

jetées. (various references)

German

Wellenbrecher (breakwater, breakwaters, groyne), Molen (jetties), Hafendaemme (jetties). (various references)

Greek 

λεμενοβραχίονας (jetties). (various references)

Italian

moli (jetties). (various references)

Pig Latin

ierspay

Portuguese

blocos de dissipação de energia (baffle piers, blocks, control blocks, floor blocks, friction blocks). (various references)

Spanish

diques convergentes (converging breakwaters, converging jetties, converging moles, converging piers). (various references)

Swedish

energiomvandlarfundament (baffle piers, blocks, control blocks, floor blocks, friction blocks). (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "PIERS": copiers, croupiers, occupiers, photocopiers, rapiers, spiers. (additional references)

Misspellings

"PIERS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aiers, eiers, Ipero, peders, pei, peier, Peierls, peigs, peios, peir, peirs, peres, persp, pheres, phers, Piara, pias, Piber, pibr, Piedra, Piedras, piegs, pierc, pierd, piere, Pieri, pierl, piero, Pietri, Pikers, Pineres, piqr, pire, Pivra, poires, pu-erh, Pyers, Pymer, pyrs. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: peris, pries, prise, ripes, speir, spier, spire.

-1 letter: ires, peri, pier, pies, reis, reps, ripe, rips, rise, sipe, sire.

-2 letters: ers, ire, per, pes, pie, pis, psi, rei, rep, res, rip, sei, ser, sip, sir, sri.

-3 letters: er, es, is, pe, pi, re, si.

+1 letter: aspire, cripes, esprit, gripes, lisper, paries, perils, perish, pikers, pipers, pisser, pliers, poiser, praise, precis, prices, prides, priers, priest, primes, prised, prises, prizes, redips, repins, reship, ripens, ripest, simper, sipper, sniper, speirs, spicer, spider, spiers, spiker, spirea, spired, spirem, spires, sprier, sprite, stripe, tripes, uprise, vipers, wipers.

+2 letters: aperies, apprise, aspired, aspirer, aspires, ceriphs, ciphers, copiers, crisped, crispen, crisper, despair, diapers, dippers, empires, emprise, epimers, erepsin, esprits, euripus, expires, gippers, gripers, grippes, harpies, hipster, hirples, imposer, impresa, imprese, impress, imprest, inspire, kippers, limpers, lippers, lispers, nippers, orpines, paniers, paresis, parises, parries, parties, parvise, pastier, paviser, peeries, periods, perkish, permits, perries, persist, peskier, pestier, piaster, piastre, pickers, piecers, pierces, pilfers, pilsner, pincers, pinders, pingers, pinkers, pinners, pirates, pismire, pissers, pitiers, poisers, porgies, porkies, praised, praiser, praises, precise, prelims, premies, premise, premiss, preside, presift, previse, prexies, pricers, priests, primers, primsie, princes, prisere, prissed, prisses, privets, privies, prizers, promise, prosier, prossie, prostie, proxies, pterins, purines, pursier, pushier, pussier, pyrites, rapiers, rapines, raspier, recipes, repairs, repines, replies, reposit, reprise, reships, respire, respite, resplit, rimples, riposte, rippers, ripples, ropiest, sappier, scrapie, seepier, semipro, serpigo, sharpie, shipper, simpers, simpler, sippers, skipper, slipper, snipers, snipper, soapier, soppier, soupier, spacier, speired, spermic, spheric, spicers, spicery, spicier, spiders, spidery, spieler, spiered, spikers, spikier, spiller, spinier, spinner, spiraea, spireas, spireme, spirems, spirier, spirted, spitter, splicer, spoiler, spriest, springe, sprites, spumier, stirpes, striped, striper, stripes, suspire, tippers, tipsier, tipster, traipse, triceps, triples, umpires, updries, upraise, uprisen, upriser, uprises, waspier, whisper, wispier, zippers.