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Waterfront   /wˈɔtərfrˌənt/   Listen
Waterfront

noun
1.
The area of a city (such as a harbor or dockyard) alongside a body of water.






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"Waterfront" Quotes from Famous Books



... drummin' on the piano, I smiles. Ten minutes later Helen appears too; and it's only when neither of the boys show up that I begins wonderin'. I asks no questions; but goes out on a scoutin' trip. There's nobody on the veranda at all. Down by the waterfront, though, I could hear voices, and I goes ...
— Odd Numbers - Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe • Sewell Ford

... traffic of the Pennsylvania and of other railroads reaching the west shore of the North River is conducted by car-floats and ferry-boats which deliver their loads at piers on the Manhattan waterfront and elsewhere in the harbor. These boats obstruct and endanger the free navigation of the channels and occupy space along the waterfront greatly needed for the accommodation of the long-distance water-borne commerce, especially ...
— Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 • Charles W. Raymond

... Mrs. Pickett, owner of the Excelsior Boarding-House. The policeman's name was Grogan. He was a genial giant, a terror to the riotous element of the waterfront, but obviously ill at ease in the presence of death. He drew in his breath, wiped his forehead, and whispered: "Look ...
— Death At The Excelsior • P. G. Wodehouse

... daring of the smugglers had discomfited the government men, in one case a cargo of liquor having been landed at a big Manhattan dock by night and removed in trucks while a sub chaser patrolling the waterfront passed the scene of operations several times, unsuspecting. There were other stories, too, of how the tables were turned, an occasion being cited when a sub chaser put a shot across the bow of what appeared to be a Gloucester fishing ...
— The Radio Boys with the Revenue Guards • Gerald Breckenridge



Words linked to "Waterfront" :   seafront, city district, dockyard



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