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| Pile |
| [L. pilus hair. Cf.
Peruke.] |
A hair; hence, the fiber of
wool, cotton, and the like; also, the nap when thick or heavy, as of
carpeting and velvet.
A covering of hair or
fur.
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The head of an arrow or spear.
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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.
One of
the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually
placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.
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To drive piles into; to
fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.
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A mass of things heaped together; a heap; as,
a pile of stones; a pile of wood.
A mass formed in layers; as, a pile
of shot.
A funeral pile; a pyre.
A large building, or mass of
buildings.
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 Volta's
pile, voltaic pile, or galvanic pile.
The reverse of a coin. See
Reverse.
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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.
To cover with heaps; or in great abundance;
to fill or overfill; to load.
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