noun.
The act of heaping up.
noun.
The process of building up, heating, and working, fagots, or piles, to form bars, etc.
noun.
A series of piles; piles considered collectively.
noun.
sheet piles connected together at the edges by dovetailed tongues and grooves.
noun.
a series of piles made of planks or half logs driven edge to edge, -- used to form the walls of cofferdams, etc.