'Landing stage' definitions:
Definition of 'landing stage'
From: WordNet
noun
Platform from which passengers and cargo can be (un)loaded
Definition of 'Landing stage'
From: GCIDE
- Landing \Land"ing\, a. Of, pertaining to, or used for, setting, bringing, or going, on shore. [1913 Webster]
- Landing charges, charges or fees paid on goods unloaded from a vessel.
- Landing net, a small, bag-shaped net, used in fishing to take the fish from the water after being hooked.
- Landing stage, a floating platform attached at one end to a wharf in such a manner as to rise and fall with the tide, and thus facilitate passage between the wharf and a vessel lying beside the stage.
- Landing waiter, a customhouse officer who oversees the landing of goods, etc., from vessels; a landwaiter. [1913 Webster]