piling
piling Lexical Profile
piling Game Scores & Validity
• noun
A heavy vertical post or cylindrical column of timber, steel, or concrete driven deep into the ground or riverbed to support a foundation, pier, dock, or bridge; also, such posts or columns considered collectively as a supporting structure.
"Barnacles and seaweed clung tightly to the wooden pilings beneath the old fishing pier."
The action or process of heaping, stacking, or accumulating things on top of one another, or of driving structural foundation piles into the ground.
"The constant piling of unfiled documents on the desk made it difficult to locate the contract."
• Rhymes for piling
Word Origin & Etymology
Formed in English from the noun and verb 'pile' plus the suffix '-ing'. In the structural sense of a support post, 'pile' derives from Old English 'pīl' (a pointed stake or dart), from Latin 'pīlum' (heavy javelin); in the sense of heaping up, it comes from Old French 'pile', from Latin 'pīla' (pillar or pier).