Pile(n.)
- A large stake, or piece of timber, pointed and driven into the earth, as at the bottom of a river, or in a harbor where the ground is soft, for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc.
Pile(n.)
- One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.
Pile(v. t.)
- To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.
Pile(n.)
- A mass of things heaped together; a heap; as, a pile of stones; a pile of wood.
Pile(n.)
- A mass formed in layers; as, a pile of shot.
Pile(n.)
- 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.
Piles(n. pl.)
- The small, troublesome tumors or swellings about the anus and lower part of the rectum which are technically called hemorrhoids. See Hemorrhoids. [The singular pile is sometimes used.]