One hard was bullt of stone and went all the way down to the lowest tide level like a causeway so you could always launch a boat or land whatever the tide. The jetties and piers had steps at the end down to platforms at different levels for the same purpose. Then I went out into the big wide world and found people were calling them anything indiscriminately. One reason was possibly the ignorance of landlubbers.
Canary Wharf itself takes its name from No. My mental image of a jetty is a small artificial peninsula such as a rock or concrete groyne. Thank you F: the Embarcadero had slipped my mind—not the place, but the name.
And then there is Marina also, but it is a place within it—called slips mostly? Arguably one of the most important rock records released in was Dr.
Another Green World and kinda-sorta Young Americans also do well on that metric, as I guess would Love to Love Baby if for some reason you conceptualized it as an album rather than just dealing with the title track in its extended mix as a freestanding object. But Joni and Elton and Bruce and even Zappa were all just elegant members of an ancien regime in need of overthrow. I guess I should note that R. Good lord, how could I omit Horses?!
My apologies to Patti in particular and rock and roll in general. I have disappointed myself. For me a jetty is primarily meant not to dock boats but to control the movement of sand or silt, either by limiting its motion parallel to the shore, or by channeling it at the outflow of a river to prevent the creation of a delta.
The others are primarily meant for docking boats. I recognize all three, but I naturally use pier if wharf or quay is not part of the name. For me, dock always refers to the watery space next to a pier, and is the preferred synonym for slip. Note that drydock suggests that default docks are not dry, and that in BrE a criminal defendant stands in , not on, the dock. Calling a pier a dock makes you a lubber as far as I am concerned. John C. John C For me a jetty is primarily meant not to dock boats but to control the movement of sand or silt,.
For me [BrEng and a boatie] a jetty is primarily meant to dock boats. And is usually on piles, possibly with fill at the landward end. A Marina will have those and jetties and slips, usually. I am a landlubber, but I thought all of them were built into the water, with wharf, pier, and quay being synonyms, and breakwater, mole, and jetty being synonyms, and the choice having more to do with the fashions of the time than the actual construction….
To me, the difference between a jetty and a groyne is purely one of function. For Jetty, all the online dictionaries I consulted gave both meanings. A heap of rubble is only going to put a hole in your boat long before you get close enough to throw a line. Plenty of examples of that on YouTube. A quay is along the shore, and for that reason more likely to be fill. A groyne juts out perpendicular from the shore of a beach or riverbank, to try to reduce erosion. Which it at best merely delays.
Apparently this is also called jetty not in my hearing. The Thames Embankment is the same construction, but has too many fancy outcrops and too few pollards to be useful.
I first heard of them when I visited Brighton and Hove back in the s. No fill that I can see. You can moor downstream not so much embankment as green, sucking mud. There was a machine vibrating rather than piledriving going solidly for three days on a building site next door to where I was trying to give a training course.
If one focused on it as a thing for fishermen to use rather than a thing for small boats to tie up to, it might be a pier, albeit an unusually small one. Like those Blank maps of [region X] with names filled in by person from [region Y], some of these are guesses I can see that it originally meant the wharf rather than the road abutting the wharf, but the Useful Distinction overrides this.
Maybe those floating piers where pleasure craft berth? AntC, thanks for the corrections. And I never realized how literal the name Docklands is — Wikipedia shows me that there was in fact mooring on the main run of the Thames in the late 18th, but in the 19th the activity was moved into man-made basins out of the traffic.
Jeez, guys. What sort of a blog is this? Yeah, those would be my choices as well, though I will always have abiding love for The Basement Tapes I can still see in my mind the Long Beach room in which I first heard it. Gaulish caium. In that context the facebook thing parallel to the shore built on fill would be an artificial key. I was raised in a sailing family in California and feel very comfortable with the terms. I also would have placed it on the grid as in the photo, but only because it fits the only quay I know Circular Quay in Sydney.
Like this:. Archived Questions Goto Qn. What is the difference between a dock, port, quay, harbour, jetty and a wharf? Baloo55th Answer has 17 votes. Baloo55th 19 year member replies Answer has 17 votes. A dock is dug out and usually has gates so that the water level is kept up even though the tide has gone out. Access may only be at certain times of the tide. A dock is for mooring ships for cargo or passenger exchange, or sometimes repair.
A dry dock can have the water evacuated so the ship rests on the bottom for easy access to the hull. A harbour may be natural or partly dug out, or even made with floating materials. It doesn't have gates, but may have a narrow entrance. Jetty Definition: a. Made of jet, or like jet in color. A part of a building that jets or projects beyond the rest, and overhangs the wall below. A wharf or pier extending from the shore. Quay is also verb with the meaning: to land or tie up at a quay or similar structure, especially used in the phrase "quay up".
A raised platform built from the shore out over water, supported on piles; used to secure, or provide access to shipping; a jetty. A structure that projects tangentially from the shoreline to accommodate ships; often double-sided.
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