pil·ing /ˈpaɪlɪŋ/
打樁,樁材,打樁工程
Pile, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Piled p. pr. & vb. n. Piling.]
1. 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. “Hills piled on hills.” --Dryden. “Life piled on life.” --Tennyson.
The labor of an age in piled stones. --Milton.
2. To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.
To pile arms To pile muskets Mil., to place three guns together so that they may stand upright, supporting each other; to stack arms.
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Pil·ing n.
1. The act of heaping up.
2. Iron Manuf. The process of building up, heating, and working, fagots, or piles, to form bars, etc.
Pil·ing, 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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piling
n : a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into
the ground to provide support for a structure [syn: pile,
spile, stilt]