1862 17 Apr. 10/3 A pecuniary award to William Watts, pierman, for saving William Allen, clerk, who attempted suicide by jumping into the river Thames.
1897 30 Nov. 5/2 One pierman..declared..that last night was the highest tide he had known.
1995 A. Warner (1996) 46 All us men, must have been forty of us: railway, fishermen, piermen, fellows from the ice factory; we all grabbed that rope.