landing stage

plural landing stages

1. nauticalA floating platform attached at one end to a wharf so as to rise and fall with the tide, and thus facilitate passage between the wharf and a vessel lying beside the stage.

   Close by, across the Parade, are the Customs Examination Rooms and the floating landing stage.

   1950 June, K. Longbottom, “Liverpool Riverside Station”, in Railway Magazine, page 372

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   He helped Crabbe along to the rough landing-stage, a groaning Crabbe sorry for himself, a Crabbe with a bandaged foot, looking like a gouty uncle[.]

   1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 576