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n.
One who heaps, piles, or amasses.
n.
A low, flat vessel, resembling a barge, furnished with cranes, capstans, and other machinery, used in careening ships, raising weights, drawing piles, etc., chiefly in the Mediterranean; a lighter.
n.
A concretion in the joints of the bamboo, which consists largely or chiefly of pure silica. It is highly valued in the East Indies as a medicine for the cure of bilious vomitings, bloody flux, piles, and various other diseases.
n.
A green membranous seaweed (Ulva) often found growing on oysters but common on stones, piles, etc.
n.
A plant (Ranunculus Ficaria of Linnaeus) whose tuberous roots have been used in poultices as a specific for the piles.
n.
The process of building up, heating, and working, fagots, or piles, to form bars, etc.
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.]
n.
A timber bolted to a row of piles to secure them together and in position.
n.
The arrangement of the red blood corpuscles in rouleaux, like piles of coins, as when a drop of human blood is examined under the microscope.
n.
An instrument for driving anything with force; as, a rammer for driving stones or piles, or for beating the earth to more solidity
n.
A movable frame or support for anything, as scaffolding, consisting of three or four legs secured to a top piece, and forming a sort of stool or horse, used by carpenters, masons, and other workmen; also, a kind of framework of strong posts or piles, and crossbeams, for supporting a bridge, the track of a railway, or the like.
v. t.
To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.
n.
A series of piles; piles considered collectively; as, the piling of a bridge.
n. pl.
Livid and painful swellings formed by the dilation of the blood vessels around the margin of, or within, the anus, from which blood or mucus is occasionally discharged; piles; emerods.
n.
A genus of long, slender, wormlike bivalve mollusks which bore into submerged wood, such as the piles of wharves, bottoms of ships, etc.; -- called also shipworm. See Shipworm. See Illust. in App.
v. t.
To butt or strike against; to drive a ram against or through; to thrust or drive with violence; to force in; to drive together; to cram; as, to ram an enemy's vessel; to ram piles, cartridges, etc.
n.
A mode of facing sea walls and embankments with planks driven as piles and secured by ties.
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A structure of piles driven round the piers of a bridge for protection and support; -- called also sterling.
n.
Any long, slender, worm-shaped bivalve mollusk of Teredo and allied genera. The shipworms burrow in wood, and are destructive to wooden ships, piles of wharves, etc. See Teredo.
n.
The act or practice of driving piles or posts into the ground to make it firm.
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