Synonyms:
pile, spile, piling, stilt
Meaning: a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure
Usage examples
Tom Parry, piling fresh fuel on the embers of the camp-fire, soon had the scene brightly lighted.
The trained elephant does the work of twenty men piling logs, loading ships, or carrying burdens.
"Bank drafts for two millions," was his summing up, "and a thousand a day piling up from my claims.
Unabashed, Burne ran his hand lovingly across the spacious foreheads, and piling up the pictures put them back in his desk.
Except for far-away soldiers who seemed to be carrying wood out of the Palace courtyard and piling it in front of the main gateway, everything was quiet.
There may have existed something of a lake in preglacial times, through which the river ran, but it undoubtedly owes its present width to the grinding action of the irresistible icebergs and the piling up of debris on the shores.
The great lakes, that were enlarged during the glacial period and in some cases wholly created--by the scooping out and damming up of the waterways and by piling glacial drift around their shores--have had some of their outlets raised to a higher level, and others have been created anew.
Each drive was attended by its own crew, who guarded the logs on either bank, launching those that shoaled on the numerous sandbars or in the shallows, keeping them from piling up in coves and in the mouths of estuaries, or creeks, some going ahead at the bends to fend off and break up any formation of the drifting timbers that promised to become a jam.