A large stake, or piece of pointed timber, steel etc., driven into the earth or sea-bed for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc.
4
One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.
verb
1
To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.
noun
1
(usually in the plural) A hemorrhoid.
noun
1
Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly countable, now treated as a collective singular.)
2
The raised hairs, loops or strands of a fabric; the nap of a cloth.