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A staith or wharf where coals are shipped in the north.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

The tide'll be on the flow by that time," Jimmy observed, "and we'll get off from the staith breakwater.

From The Zeppelin's Passenger by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)