You tie your boat to...

Tom Dunlap

Tom Dunlap

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..that thing that goes out from shore, into the water...yeah, that, what do you call it? Please say where you're from too.

this came up on a FB page which has lead to a discussion of a regionalism.

Skillet...fry pan, that sort of thing.
 
Dock, or dock cleat. Pangaea, earth. (A.k.a. I'm a regional mutt at this point, who started out in California and currently resides in Florida)

Also, I had 30 stitches placed in an inner and outer layer between my 3rd and 4th toes back in the 1990s. Don't run into dock cleats in bare feet - it's like being cut with a dull spoon.
 
ON another forum a guy claimed that pier is correct over using dock. that didn't sit well on my ears. The only pier's I ever heard of were either in salt water or with ships.

Even when I was working in Louisiana. THere was some time down the bayou..never once heard a pier...just dock.
 
The definition of mooring's the structure tied to preventing a vessel from wandering off.

A buoy tethered to the ocean floor's called a mooring buoy, but underwater attachment hardware constitutes the "mooring" proper.

Jemco
 
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I don’t usually tie up my boat, I just pick it up and throw it back in the bed of my pickup. Or if I’m in the big boat, I pull into the marina and hand the ropes to the guy working there, along with some cash, and he walks it to the forklift that puts it back inside.

But seriously, around here, a pier is a solid, fixed, permanent structure. A dock can be fixed in place, but more typically floats and can be moved/removed fairly easily.
 
Been around the sea most of my life and spent 10 years as a tug skipper down South. We always used dock to mean pretty much any structure you could pull up to in a vessel, but pier usually implied something large and also normally meant ocean or salt water or large harbour, rather than smaller structures inland. Also the kind of dock that rises or falls with the tide was called a float both there and also up here in Puget Sound. When I was back in the UK, pier was used for larger structures there as well. Brits use the word quay for the type of dock that is the main wall of a harbour that you can dock against, and built of stone or concrete. Also the term wharf can mean various types of larger docks. Neat subject to think about!
 
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