Keen wrote:
Sitting on a dock is a good way to get a wet posterior. The dock is the water the boat 'docks' in. The thing you can sit on, walk on, etc, next to the dock (water) is called a pier. Otis Redding led us astray with his use of the word dock in his great song. Oh well....
Thanks for straightening out those definitions … I always thought of a dock - as the wood edifice - one ties up one's boat to, so it doesn't float out to sea (lake, whatever) … and a Pier - as more of an entertainment area - stretched out above the water. No - don't think it was Otis Redding - who led us astray with his great song. Thought it always WAS that way! … Just shows ya, huh? …