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/pˈaɪlɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Pile v. t. To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.

To sheet-pile, to make sheet piling in or around. See Sheet piling, under 2nd Piling.

Pile v. t. (past & past part. piled; pres. part. piling)

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. "Hills piled on hills." "Life piled on life." "The labor of an age in piled stones."

To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.

To pile arms To pile muskets (Mil.), to place three guns together so that they may stand upright, supporting each other; to stack arms.

noun

Piling n.

The act of heaping up.

(Iron Manuf.) The process of building up, heating, and working, fagots, or piles, to form bars, etc.

Piling n. A series of piles; piles considered collectively; as, the piling of a bridge.

Pug piling, sheet piles connected together at the edges by dovetailed tongues and grooves.

Sheet piling, a series of piles made of planks or half logs driven edge to edge, used to form the walls of cofferdams, etc.

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Etymology of 'Piling'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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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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