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Pillar

The general and popular term for a firm upright insulated support for a superstructure a pier column or post also a column or shaft not supporting a superstructure as one erected for a monument

Mullion

A slender bar or pier which forms the division between the lights of windows screens etc

Jutty

A projection in a building also a pier or mole a jetty

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Coussinet

A stone placed on the impost of a pier for receiving the first stone of an arch

Butment

A buttress of an arch the supporter or that part which joins it to the upright pier

Complete destruction

and landing consisting of a narrow footing at the base of a bluff without any wharf, dock, or pier, where the unprecedented ravages of the river effectually took away the use of the landing by washing away

Lighthouse

of erecting and maintaining them is a branch of the royal prerogative. By the (English) Harbours, Docks and Piers Clause, etc. Act, 1847 (10 & 11 Vict. c. 27), lighthouses are not to be erected without the

Thames

(see s. 191) to make bye-laws for prevention of obstruction; for regulation of vessels, of persons using tow-paths, piers, etc., and of passage through locks; for regulation of bathing, fishing, and exhibition of advertisements; 'for prescribing the

Quays

Transfer Act, 1862 (25 & 26 Vict. c. 69), s. 15. See also the (English) Harbours, Docks, and Piers Clauses Act, 1847 (10 & 11 Vict. c. 27). By 9 & 10 Geo. 5, c. 20, the

Public Works Loans Act, 1875 (English)

parochial boards; construction or improvement of canals; conservation or improvement of rivers of main drainage; docks, harbours, and piers, and any work for which the Public Works Loan Commissioners are authorized to lend by s. 3 of

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