piling

IPA: pˈaɪɫɪŋ

noun

  • A structural support comprising a length of wood, steel, or other construction material.
  • The act of heaping up.
  • (ironworking) The process of building up, heating, and working fagots or piles to form bars, etc.
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Examples of "piling" in Sentences

  • If it does, grain piling up will be the least of your worries.
  • I jumped out of my sleeping bag and begin piling more wood and pine bows on the fire.
  • Greece led the peripheral countries in piling up debts that it had little hope of ever repaying.
  • Is that what you call piling a MASSIVE deficit onto future generations, children (little people).
  • In Evidence that we should freak out, episode I, RC3 points me to Grain piling up in Canadian ports | FP Passport:
  • Both these men had publicly thanked the Suffragettes for their notable share in piling up those triumphant and highly significant majorities.
  • Only the person writing it today knows, and they know it because of the true ring of the words in their ears, not the sound of the coins piling up in their future.
  • However, in piling on Mr. Doyle, I fear that Morrissey has put aside his political and/or philosophical beliefs in favor of giving his enemy another good bludgeon.
  • Many will say, "Oh, let him bide,, because after all he is only a poor mad crazy fellow who spends his time in piling up apples in an apple cart and balancing them dexterously on the top of his nose."
  • I found Moodie and Monaghan employed in piling up heaps of bush near the house, which they intended to burn off by hand previous to firing the rest of the fallow, to prevent any risk to the building from fire.

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