PILE

noun a funeral pile; a pyre.

2. pile ·noun a covering of hair or fur.

3. pile ·noun ·same·as fagot, ·noun, 2.

4. pile ·noun the head of an arrow or spear.

5. pile ·noun a large building, or mass of buildings.

6. pile ·noun a mass formed in layers; as, a pile of shot.

7. pile ·noun the reverse of a coin. ·see reverse.

8. pile ·vt to drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.

9. pile ·noun a mass of things heaped together; a heap; as, a pile of stones; a pile of wood.

10. pile ·vt to cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.

11. pile ·noun a hair; hence, the fiber of wool, cotton, and the like; also, the nap when thick or heavy, as of carpeting and velvet.

12. pile ·noun one of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.

13. pile ·vt 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.

14. pile ·noun 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.

15. pile ·noun 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.