Piling
['paɪlɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pile
(n.) The act of heaping up.
(n.) The process of building up, heating, and working, fagots, or piles, to form bars, etc.
(n.) A series of piles; piles considered collectively; as, the piling of a bridge.
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Definition
n. the act of piling up: the driving of piles: a series of piles placed in order: pilework.
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Examples
- The persecutors denied that there was any particular gift in Mr. Chadband's piling verbose flights of stairs, one upon another, after this fashion. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- It was still piling its frothy hills high in air outside, as we could plainly see with the glasses. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The Northern people were tired of the war, they were tired of piling up a debt which would be a further mortgage upon their homes. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- They were piling up their score all the time and we were at a standstill. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Meg was already covering the buckwheats, and piling the bread into one big plate. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- To-day charcoal is made commercially by piling wood on steel cars and then pushing the cars into strong walled chambers. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- When the atmosphere had cleared sufficiently to see, he went around and pulled every table away from the wall, piling them on top of the stove in the middle of the room. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It followed that merchants who had ordered goods from the Cromford Mill cancelled their orders, rather than pay the duty, and again Arkwright found his cottons piling up on his hands. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
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