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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.

The act or process of compiling or gathering together from various sources.

The art of writing or compiling encyclopedias; also, possession of the whole range of knowledge; encyclopedic learning.

The act of heaping or piling up. [Obs.] "Exaggeration of sand." Sir M. Hale.

Intellectual exertion; mental effort; as, the labor of compiling a history.

e rigidly secured at their extremities to supporting steel legs, driven into the round as piling, or resting on mudsills.

elling, under Lake. -- Pile plank (Hydraul. Eng.), a thick plank used as a pile in sheet piling. See Sheet piling, under Piling. -- Pneumatic pile. See under Pneumatic. -- Screw pile, one with a screw at the lower end, and sunk by rotation aided by pressure.

The act of recompiling; new compilation or digest; as, a recompilement of the laws. Bacon.