piling
noun
[ ˈpʌɪlɪŋ ]
• heavy stakes or posts installed to support the foundations of a superstructure.
• "wooden piling supporting a complex of waterfront buildings"
pile
verb
• place (things) one on top of the other.
• "she piled all the groceries on the counter"
Similar:
heap (up),
stack (up),
make a heap/pile/stack of,
accumulate,
assemble,
put together,
• (of a group of people) get into or out of a vehicle or space in a disorganized manner.
• "ten of us piled into the minibus"
Similar:
crowd,
climb,
charge,
tumble,
stream,
flock,
flood,
pack,
squeeze,
push,
shove,
jostle,
elbow,
crush,
jam,
Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French, from Latin pila ‘pillar, pier’.
pile
verb
• strengthen or support (a structure) with piles.
• "an earlier bridge may have been piled"
Origin:
Old English pīl ‘dart, arrow’, also ‘pointed stake’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch pijl and German Pfeil, from Latin pilum ‘(heavy) javelin’.
