Old Dock Sill
The level of the sill of its entrance is used in and around Liverpool as a height datum called Old Dock Sill or ODS.
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Famous quotes containing the words dock and/or sill:
“You turn
To speak to someone beside the dock and the lighthouse
Shines like garnets. It has become a stricture.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“At the punch-bowls brink,
Let the thirsty think,
What they say in Japan:
First the man takes a drink,
Then the drink takes a drink,
Then the drink takes the man!”
—Edward Rowland Sill (18411887)