Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Staith"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Staith \Staith\, n. [AS. st[ae]? 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.
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