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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