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Piling

noun

A column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure. Synonyms: pile, spile, stilt.

Pile

verb

(past & past part. piled; pres. part. piling)

Arrange in stacks. Synonyms: heap, stack. "Stack your books up on the shelves"

Press tightly together or cram. Synonyms: jam, mob, pack, throng.

Place or lay as if in a pile.

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"Piling" Quotes from Famous Books

... laughter at the frantic struggles of their victims. At length the tumult died away in low gaspings and moanings. The day broke. The Nabob had slept off his debauch, and permitted the door to be opened. But it was some time before the soldiers could make a lane for the survivors, by piling up on each side the heaps of corpses on which the burning climate had already begun to do its loathsome work. When at length a passage was made, twenty-three ghastly figures, such as their own mothers would not have known, staggered one by one out of the charnel-house. ...

— Critical and Historical Essays Volume 1 • Thomas Babington Macaulay

... and tents were surrounded by a thick wood, I set the men to make an opening to the sea-side, by cutting down the trees and piling ...

— An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island • John Hunter

... eyes, the King descended from his litter and mounted, amid salutations, to the enclosure on the amphitheatre where his throne was set up, and seating himself upon the throne gazed steadfastly at the arena, where now assistant executioners were piling the ...

— The Proud Prince • Justin Huntly McCarthy

... the twigs from a tiny spruce tree, piling them inside the old stove. When they had cracked and blazed with a fierce, sudden heat, Ann could only break bread-crumbs into a cupful of boiling water and put a few drops of rum in it. She woke Bart and fed him as she might have fed a baby. When he lay down again exhausted, with ...

— The Zeit-Geist • Lily Dougall

... stopped now at a cross-road where no human habitation is visible. Around them are gorges full of shade wherein grand oaks grow thickly, and above, everywhere, a piling up of mountains, of a reddish color burned by the sun. There is nowhere an indication of the new times; there is an absolute silence, something like the peace of the primitive epochs. Lifting their heads toward the brown peaks, they perceive at a long distance persons walking on invisible ...

— Ramuntcho • Pierre Loti

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