Building a dock is a lot like building a deck — with wet feet. Like decks, docks have footers, posts, beams, joists, decking, and railing; docks also have the same load requirements as decks. A few techniques, however, are different for docks, mostly involving the footers.
Alliance: In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their
hands so deeply inserted in each other's pocket that they cannot separately
plunder a third.