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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure [syn: pile, spile, piling, stilt]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 15th century a structure of piles; also pile

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Piling Pil"ing, n. [See Pile a heap.] 1. The act of heaping up. 2. (Iron Manuf.) The process of building up, heating, and working, fagots, or piles, to form bars, etc.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Piling Pil"ing, n. [See Pile a stake.] A series of piles; piles considered collectively; as, the piling of a bridge. Pug piling, sheet piles connected together at the edges by dovetailed tongues and grooves. Sheet piling, a series of piles made of planks or half logs driven edge to edge, -- used to form the walls of cofferdams, etc.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(pilings) Pilings are wooden, concrete, or metal posts which are pushed into the ground and on which buildings or bridges are built. Pilings are often used in very wet areas so that the buildings do not flood. ...bridges set on stone pilings. = pile N-COUNT: usu pl