Piling Synonyms & Definitions

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• PilingDefinition & Meaning in English

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pile
(n.) The act of heaping up.
(n.) The process of building up, heating, and working, fagots, or piles, to form bars, etc.
(n.) A series of piles; piles considered collectively; as, the piling of a bridge.

• PileDefinition & Meaning in English

(v. t.) To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.
(n.) A funeral pile; a pyre.
(n.) The head of an arrow or spear.
(n.) A hair; hence, the fiber of wool, cotton, and the like; also, the nap when thick or heavy, as of carpeting and velvet.
(v. t.) To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to accumulate; to amass; -- often with up; as, to pile up wood.
(n.) Same as Fagot, n., 2.
(n.) A large stake, or piece of timber, pointed and driven into the earth, as at the bottom of a river, or in a harbor where the ground is soft, for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc.
(n.) A covering of hair or fur.
(v. t.) To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.
(n.) One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.
(n.) A large building, or mass of buildings.
(n.) A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals, as copper and zinc, laid up with disks of cloth or paper moistened with acid water between them, for producing a current of electricity; -- commonly called Voltas pile, voltaic pile, or galvanic pile.
(n.) A mass formed in layers; as, a pile of shot.
(n.) The reverse of a coin. See Reverse.
(n.) A mass of things heaped together; a heap; as, a pile of stones; a pile of wood.