pile

1. n. A hair; hence, the fiber of wool, cotton, and the like; also, the nap when thick or heavy, as of carpeting and velvet. Source: opted

2. n. A covering of hair or fur. Source: opted

3. n. The head of an arrow or spear. Source: opted

4. n. 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. Source: opted

5. n. One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost. Source: opted

6. v. t. To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles. Source: opted

7. n. A mass of things heaped together; a heap; as, a pile of stones; a pile of wood. Source: opted

8. n. A mass formed in layers; as, a pile of shot. Source: opted

9. n. A funeral pile; a pyre. Source: opted

10. n. A large building, or mass of buildings. Source: opted

11. n. Same as Fagot, n., 2. Source: opted

12. n. 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. Source: opted

13. n. The reverse of a coin. See Reverse. Source: opted

14. v. t. 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. Source: opted

15. v. t. To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load. Source: opted

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