PILING

n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

The act of heaping up.

2.
n.

The process of building up, heating, and working, fagots, or piles, to form bars, etc.

3.
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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