Pile |
A hair; hence, the fiber of wool, cotton, and the like; also, the nap when thick or heavy, as of carpeting and velvet. |
n. |
Pile |
A covering of hair or fur. |
n. |
Pile |
The head of an arrow or spear. |
n. |
Pile |
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. |
Pile |
One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost. |
n. |
Pile |
To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles. |
v. t. |
Pile |
A mass of things heaped together; a heap; as, a pile of stones; a pile of wood. |
n. |
Pile |
A mass formed in layers; as, a pile of shot. |
n. |
Pile |
A funeral pile; a pyre. |
n. |
Pile |
A large building, or mass of buildings. |
n. |
Pile |
Same as Fagot, n., 2. |
n. |
Pile |
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. |
Pile |
The reverse of a coin. See Reverse. |
n. |
Pile |
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. |
Pile |
To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load. |
v. t. |
Three-pile |
An old name for the finest and most costly kind of velvet, having a fine, thick pile. |
n. |
Worn |
of Wear |
p. p. |
Wheel-worn |
Worn by the action of wheels; as, a wheel-worn road. |
a. |
Worn |
p. p. of Wear. |
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Worn-out |
Consumed, or rendered useless, by wearing; as, worn-out garments. |
a. |