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Webster 1913 Edition

(stāth)

Noun.

[AS.

staeð

a bank, shore, from the root of E.

stead

A landing place; an elevated staging upon a wharf for discharging coal, etc., as from railway cars, into vessels.

[Eng.]

staith ‎(plural staiths)

(obsolete) A shore or a riverbank.
From staith to staith.‎
A landing place; an elevated staging upon a wharf for discharging coal, etc., as from railway cars into vessels.