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See also: Pile cluster, Dolphin

In the maritime vocabulary, a pile cluster (or Dolphin ) consists of Piloti S (posts of wood, steel tubes, blocks of cement) anchored in the content of the basins or the channels, on which a Navire can moor or be pressed, in level, with the accesses of a lock, in the Darse S of a seaport.

The term comes from Ferdinand Alvare de Tolède, pile cluster, which made moor its boats with piles at the time of its stay to the Portugal.

In the Lagoon of Venice, these posts, called " Trifle " in Italian (arranged in the singular), are bound by three and are inserted in the ground to delimit a channel without high bottom and suited to navigation. Inside the lagoon one calls them " Paline " east are used for damping. Each " bricola" carry a number or a letter which indicates, in the event of fog, where one is.

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