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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Pile \Pile\, n. [L. pilum javelin. See {Pile} a stake.] The head of an arrow or spear. [Obs.] --Chapman. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Pile \Pile\, n. [AS. p[imac]l arrow, stake, L. pilum javelin; but cf. also L. pila pillar.] 1. 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. [1913 Webster] Note: Tubular iron piles are now much used. [1913 Webster] 2. [Cf. F. pile.] (Her.) One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost. [1913 Webster] {Pile bridge}, a bridge of which the roadway is supported on piles. {Pile cap}, a beam resting upon and connecting the heads of piles. {Pile driver}, or {Pile engine}, an apparatus for driving down piles, consisting usually of a high frame, with suitable appliances for raising to a height (by animal or steam power, the explosion of gunpowder, etc.) a heavy mass of iron, which falls upon the pile. {Pile dwelling}. See {Lake dwelling}, 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. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Pile \Pile\, n. [L. pilus hair. Cf. {Peruke}.] 1. A hair; hence, the fiber of wool, cotton, and the like; also, the nap when thick or heavy, as of carpeting and velvet. [1913 Webster] Velvet soft, or plush with shaggy pile. --Cowper. [1913 Webster] 2. (Zool.) A covering of hair or fur. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Pile \Pile\, v. t. To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles. [1913 Webster] {To sheet-pile}, to make sheet piling in or around. See {Sheet piling}, under 2nd {Piling}. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Pile \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. [1913 Webster] The labor of an age in piled stones. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load. [1913 Webster] {To pile arms} {To pile muskets} (Mil.), to place three guns together so that they may stand upright, supporting each other; to stack arms. [1913 Webster] Pileate From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Pile \Pile\, n. [F. pile, L. pila a pillar, a pier or mole of stone. Cf. {Pillar}.] 1. A mass of things heaped together; a heap; as, a pile of stones; a pile of wood. [1913 Webster] 2. A mass formed in layers; as, a pile of shot. [1913 Webster] 3. A funeral pile; a pyre. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 4. A large building, or mass of buildings. [1913 Webster] The pile o'erlooked the town and drew the fight. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 5. (Iron Manuf.) Same as {Fagot}, n., 2. [1913 Webster] 6. (Elec.) 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}. [1913 Webster] Note: The term is sometimes applied to other forms of apparatus designed to produce a current of electricity, or as synonymous with battery; as, for instance, to an apparatus for generating a current of electricity by the action of heat, usually called a thermopile. [1913 Webster] 7. [F. pile pile, an engraved die, L. pila a pillar.] The reverse of a coin. See {Reverse}. [1913 Webster] {Cross and pile}. See under {Cross}. {Dry pile}. See under {Dry}. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Piles \Piles\, n. pl. [L. pila a ball. Cf. {Pill} a medicine.] (Med.) The small, troublesome tumors or swellings about the anus and lower part of the rectum which are technically called {hemorrhoids}. See {Hemorrhoids}. Note: [The singular {pile} is sometimes used.] [1913 Webster] {Blind piles}, hemorrhoids which do not bleed. [1913 Webster] From French-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.4 [fd-fra-eng]: pile /pil/ 1. pile; stack 2. battery (of electrovoltiac cells) 3. pier (of wall or structure)