Word Meaning

Find the meaning or definition of a english word


pile definition and meaning

n. A hair; hence, the fiber of wool, cotton, and the like; also, the nap when thick or heavy, as of carpeting and velvet.
n. A covering of hair or fur.
n. The head of an arrow or spear.
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.
n. One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.
v. t. To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.
n. A mass of things heaped together; a heap; as, a pile of stones; a pile of wood.
n. A mass formed in layers; as, a pile of shot.
n. A funeral pile; a pyre.
n. A large building, or mass of buildings.
n. Same as Fagot, n., 2.
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.
n. The reverse of a coin. See Reverse.
v. t. 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.
v. t. To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.

Crossword clues for pile

- A heap
- Carpet surface
- Heap
- lots of money
- Stack


Copyright ©2017-2024 Crossword Solver

Follow us facebook croswodsolver