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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

... to stay on the spot two days; that the tribesmen of the slain were free to attack them if they chose, but in that case, they would split the heads of all the women and children prisoners in their hands, make a breastwork of the dead bodies, and then finish it by piling upon it those of ...

— A Half Century of Conflict - Volume I - France and England in North America • Francis Parkman

... week paid the Notts' Cricketer, GUNN, a well-deserved compliment on his great innings of 228 against the Australians. He intended to represent him as piling-up that huge score "against the best bowling." The obviously accidental substitution of the word "batting" for "bowling" here, caused "the Nottingham Giant" to be credited with a novel cricketing performance, to which even he would hardly be equal. The ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 99, July 5, 1890 • Various

... each gate, in order to shelter these as far as possible from the effect of the enemy's cannonballs. Orders were at once given to this effect, and in an hour the whole population were at work carrying earth in baskets and piling it in front of the gates. In order to economize labor, and to make the sides of the mounds as steep as possible, Mr. Goodenough directed with brushwood, forming a sort of rough wattle work. Not even when night set in did the people desist from their labor, and by the following morning the ...

— By Sheer Pluck - A Tale of the Ashanti War • G. A. Henty

... she laughed. "I suppose you mean buried in a handkerchief! But I shall never be able to dig it out—never! There's such an awful pile of them on top! They keep piling on new ones every day. If I keep on selling handkerchiefs till I'm seventy-five, I'll never get ...

— Four Girls and a Compact • Annie Hamilton Donnell

... secure his enjoyment beyond the present necessity; but afterwards he wishes a superabundance in matter, an aesthetical supplement to satisfy the impulse for the formal, to extend enjoyment beyond necessity. By piling up provisions simply for a future use, and anticipating their enjoyment in the imagination, he outsteps the limits of the present moment, but not those of time in general. He enjoys more; he does not enjoy differently. But as soon as he makes form enter into his enjoyment, ...

— Literary and Philosophical Essays • Various

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