Piling

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  • noun. The act of driving piles.
  • noun. Piles considered as a group.
  • noun. A structure composed of piles.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Logs ready to be made into piles, or from which piles are made.
  • noun. See pile, verb
  • noun. In leather manufacturing, a slow inward sweating of the leather.
  • noun. In engineering, the operation of placing and driving piles in position.
  • noun. Piles collectively; pilework.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A structural support comprised of a length of wood, steel, or other construction material.
  • verb. Present participle of pile.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure
  • Word Usage
    "Is that what you call piling a MASSIVE deficit onto future generations, children (little people)."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    column  pillar  
    Hyponym
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    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    verb-stem
    pile