Meaning of staithe | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A riverbank
   UK, obsolete
2. A fixed structure where ships land, especially to load and unload; wharf; landing stage.
   UK, archaic, dialectal
3. An installation built at the railside or nearby for the storage of coal unloaded from wagons.
   UK

Examples

“Trevithick's first use⟳ of steam traction on rail took place⟳ at Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorganshire, on a tramroad 9¾ miles long between the Penydarren ironworks of Samuel Homfray, and the staithes at Abercynon, where the worked iron⟳ was loaded into barges on the Glamorganshire Canal.”

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