Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a pile, as an arrow.
- Supported on or by piles.
- In iron-making, made up of bars, fagots, or piles, placed together and welded.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Having a pile or point; pointed.
- adjective Having a pile or nap.
- adjective (Iron Manuf.) Formed from a pile or fagot.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
pile . - adjective Formed from a
pile orfagot .
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Examples
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You know that big ship's anchor and chain piled up behind the coal-sheds?
Chapter 16 2010
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It seems that with its collapse, the coins piled up there among the building debris.
Treasure Trove! Jan 2009
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No man, the more I think about this, the more it looks win piled on win.
Think Progress » New Study: Manmade Global Warming Contributing To Increase In Wildfires 2006
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One of the best nights I had there once was on a Friday night a few years ago, and in piled a whole bunch of very friendly university students (well, college kids, I guess – they were American, after all) from New York state who were in Toronto for a week on an organized school trip of some sort.
permission granted 2005
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Fingering a gold crown free of the coins piled in front of him, he slid it over beside Mat's silver mark.
Knife of Dreams Jordan, Robert, 1948- 2005
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The woman without a word piled fresh billets of wood upon the fire and set to work with bellows to work up a blaze.
Flying Colours Forester, C. S. 1938
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You know that big ship's anchor and chain piled up behind the coal-sheds?
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What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones The labour of an age in piled stones?
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Though Constantinople be heaped above him as a tomb, yet I must find him -- then cover us with the city's weight, with a mountain piled above -- I care not, so that one grave hold Raymond and his Perdita.
II.3 1826
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A backlog of more than 1,300 emergency calls piled up Monday afternoon as ambulances were stuck or ran out of gas, some with patients inside.
30 Hours' Wait for Ambulance Jacob Gershman 2010
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