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Meaning:

Noun:

  • usually in plural A hemorrhoid.
  • A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a fagot.
  • A funeral pile; a pyre.
  • A large building, or mass of buildings.
  • A large stake, or piece of pointed timber, steel etc., driven into the earth or sea-bed for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc.
  • A mass formed in layers; as, a pile of shot.
  • A mass of things heaped together; a heap
  • 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.
  • Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly countable, now treated as a collective singular.)
  • heraldiccharge One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.
  • obsolete A dart; an arrow.
  • obsolete The reverse (or tails) of a coin.
  • The head of an arrow or spear.
  • The raised hairs, loops or strands of a fabric; to nap of a cloth.

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Verb:

  • transitive (of vehicles) To create a hold-up.
  • transitive To add something to a great number.
  • transitive To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.
  • transitive To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.
  • transitive 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.

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