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Word: pierhead (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...Nina. Convinced that the accused had taken it on the lam, Magistrate Wilson issued a warrant for her arrest. With belated efficiency, police staked out the Soviet embassy, but by then there was reason to believe that their girl had tried a non-Olympic event, the running pierhead jump, and was safely on a Russian freighter heading for home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Olympic Shoplifter | 9/10/1956 | See Source »

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