Five of the bridge's 13 pilings, also known as piers, are being repaired during the project.    From Wordnik.com.  [Repairs on D.C.'s 14th Street bridge to continue 14 months, one lane at a time] Reference

Next came crews to install 4-inch-diameter steel poles, called piers, in rows called strings.    From Wordnik.com.  [SplicedFeed] Reference

The supports which afford resting and resisting points to the arch are called piers and abutments.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize] Reference

The piers are the original approaches to the ill-fated bridge that was replaced by the Sunshine Skyway.    From Wordnik.com.  [marconews.com Stories] Reference

Termites build mud tubes up the side of concrete slabs or piers, which is a sign termites have reached your home.    From Wordnik.com.  [Corpus Christi Caller Times, Caller.com Stories] Reference

The thicker pillars are of elaborate late Norman work, diapered in a manner recalling the piers of the nave at Durham.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cathedral Church of York Bell's Cathedrals: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Archi-Episcopal See] Reference

The concrete for the piers was a mixture of 1 part Portland cement to 7 parts gravel; for the arches, the concrete was mixed 1 to 5.    From Wordnik.com.  [Concrete Construction Methods and Costs] Reference

The sides of this harbor were lined with piers, and on one of the piers was a great hotel, forming a part, as it were, of the railway station.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rollo in Paris] Reference

Long Branch transportation plan "piers" into future.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Job help as close as public library] Reference

First stop was the fish market, a dizzying maze of shacks and ramshackle "piers" and.    From Wordnik.com.  [TravelPod.com Recent Updates] Reference

It chuckled, too, among the small piers of the near-by docks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruth Fielding Down East Or, The Hermit of Beach Plum Point] Reference

PINKWATER: (Reading) Or playing thread-the-needle around the piers.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Children's Classic 'Toots' Back to Bookshelves] Reference

One of the best piers in the world will be built; the harbor rivals.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Log of the Empire State] Reference

If its piers have become iconic, that's because of "On the Waterfront.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Artists and Monsters on Screen] Reference

Giant floating piers, code-named "Mulberries," were brought in to the beaches to handle cargo.    From Wordnik.com.  [D-DAY] Reference

We saw miles of concrete piers that had been built in record-breaking time with American skill.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Flash Ranging Service Observations of an American Soldier During His Service With the A.E.F. in France] Reference

Stroll down the Mumbles, a walkway along Swansea Bay that passes through shops, eateries and piers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Four Hours in Swansea, Wales] Reference

Two aisles with massive piers and semicircular arches (slightly stilted) are on each side of the nave.    From Wordnik.com.  [The South of France—East Half] Reference

The interior of the roof rests on triple vaulting shafts rising from 10 piers on each side of the nave.    From Wordnik.com.  [The South of France—East Half] Reference

Strain, in Scotland and Spain, involved the building of abutments, piers and arches of rubble concrete.    From Wordnik.com.  [Concrete Construction Methods and Costs] Reference

St. Amable, 12th cent., with a large nave supported on 14 piers, each pier having three engaged columns.    From Wordnik.com.  [The South of France—East Half] Reference

SMITH: Okay, so New Jersey is a likely suspect, as are container ships that made these old piers obsolete.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brooklyn, Floating Bodies Lure Crime Writer Cohen] Reference

For the ships of the world she has built about her water-front more than three hundred piers and bulkheads.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference

Docks, piers, bridges, stations were become mere detective terminals to him -- things to be shunned at all cost.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flamsted quarries] Reference

It means the flyover will be built in small pieces rather than by laying big slabs of concrete between the piers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Metro's Silver Line bridge project casts a big shadow in Tysons Corner] Reference

As the choir contracts towards the apsidal termination the piers become less massive and the arches ⅓ narrower.    From Wordnik.com.  [The South of France—East Half] Reference

He actually did choose such a place, at the old railroad-piers, four miles above Florence, Alabama, which is below.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

These piers and warehouses of American construction played a great part in ending the war, for they enabled the American.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Flash Ranging Service Observations of an American Soldier During His Service With the A.E.F. in France] Reference

The interior consists of eight square compartments, each, excepting the 7th, covered with a dome resting on four massive piers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The South of France—East Half] Reference

When hand mixing is employed in building piers, abutments, walls, etc., the concrete often has to be hoisted as well as wheeled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Concrete Construction Methods and Costs] Reference

Round the nave are fourteen piers with attached columns, having on their capitals sculptured figures of men, animals, and plants.    From Wordnik.com.  [The South of France—East Half] Reference

People would go down to the piers on the East River and try to sleep there, out in the open, and would roll into the river and drown.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heat Wave Of 1896 And The Rise Of Roosevelt] Reference

Round the nave and choir are twenty-eight, or, including those of the transepts, thirty-six fascicled piers, which rise nearly to the roof.    From Wordnik.com.  [The South of France—East Half] Reference

When complete, the full 85-acre park will replace abandoned piers, former parking lots and storage sheds with lawns, esplanades and water access.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brooklyn Heights, First 'Burb] Reference

Government officials and journalists bobbed up and down on the high seas for an hour as German commandos escorted them between creaky wooden piers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Havoc in Germany] Reference

Workers are assembling the second huge truss that will be used to construct the aerial guideway on one of the piers at the Capital Beltway/Route 123.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dr. G's tips for Sunday, Aug. 15, 2010] Reference

Somewhat reclusive when not performing, Mr. Jordan could often be found fishing at Padre Island National Seashore or off the piers at Corpus Christi.    From Wordnik.com.  [Esteban 'Steve' Jordan, virtuoso accordionist, dies at 71] Reference