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piling

nounverbattested in dialogue

  • United States/[ˈpʰaɪ̯ɫlɪŋ]/
  • //ˈpaɪlɪŋ//

A structural support comprising a length of wood, steel, or other construction material.

noun

  1. 1

    A structural support comprising a length of wood, steel, or other construction material.

  2. 2

    The act of heaping up.

  3. 3

    The process of building up, heating, and working fagots or piles to form bars, etc.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of pilepresent participle and gerund of pile

Forms

plural
pilings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).