pier• The cruise boards at 7 p.m. at Pier 33.• Inside the church, where the lighting is subdued but not dim, the centraldome is supported on eight piers.• He stood with the others on the great stone pier.• They had applauded him on the pier.• The green car was behind them on the pier, in the third line of queuing cars.• Time, weather, and long neglect had taken the piersbeyond dilapidation.• He said he had managed to swim under the pier and had found a ledge.• The pier was filled with hundreds of people.