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語源

From 古期英語 stæþ and/or Old Norse stöð (“harbor”).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /steɪθ/, /steɪð/
• 韻: -eɪθ, -eɪð

名詞

staithe (plural staithes)

1. (UK, obsolete) A riverbank
2. (UK, archaic or dialectal) A fixed structure where ships land, especially to load and unload; wharf; landing stage.
   • 1951 March, E. W. Twining, “The First Railway Locomotive”, in Railway Magazine, page 197:

     Trevithick's first use of steam traction on rail took place at Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorganshire, on a tramroad 9¾ miles long between the Penydarren ironworks of Samuel Homfray, and the staithes at Abercynon, where the worked iron was loaded into barges on the Glamorganshire Canal.

3. (UK, rail transport) An installation built at the railside or nearby for the storage of coal unloaded from wagons.

使用する際の注意点

• The landing stage sense is common in place names, particularly in the former Danelaw area of east and north-east England where it remains dialectal in use.

同意語

• wharf

参考

• Category:staithes on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

アナグラム

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