Pile

·noun A funeral pile; a pyre.

II. Pile ·noun A covering of hair or fur.

III. Pile ·noun ·same·as Fagot, ·noun, 2.

IV. Pile ·noun The head of an arrow or spear.

V. Pile ·noun A large building, or mass of buildings.

VI. Pile ·noun A mass formed in layers; as, a pile of shot.

VII. Pile ·noun The reverse of a coin. ·see Reverse.

VIII. Pile ·vt To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.

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

X. Pile ·vt To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to Load.

XI. 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.

XII. Pile ·noun One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.

XIII. 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.

XIV. 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.

XV. 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.