Pile
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( n.) A covering of hair or fur.
(2): ( n.) A hair; hence, the fiber of wool, cotton, and the like; also, the nap when thick or heavy, as of carpeting and velvet.
(3): ( n.) The head of an arrow or spear.
(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.
(5): ( n.) One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.
(6): ( v. t.) To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.
(7): ( n.) A mass of things heaped together; a heap; as, a pile of stones; a pile of wood.
(8): ( n.) A mass formed in layers; as, a pile of shot.
(9): ( n.) A funeral pile; a pyre.
(10): ( n.) A large building, or mass of buildings.
(11): ( n.) Same as Fagot, n., 2.
(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.
(13): ( n.) The reverse of a coin. See Reverse.
(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.
(15): ( v. t.) To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.
King James Dictionary [2]
PILE, n. L. pila.
1. A heap a mass or collection of things in a roundish or elevated form as a pile of stones a pile of bricks a pile of wood or timber a pile of ruins. 2. A collection of combustibles for burning a dead body as a funeral pile. 3. A large building or mass of buildings an edifice.
The pile o'erlook'd the town and drew the sight.
4. A heap of balls or shot laid in horizontal courses, rising into a pyramidical form.
PILE, n. L. palus.
1. 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 or other superstructure. The stadthouse in Amsterdam is supported by piles. 2. One side of a coin originally, a punch or puncheon used in stamping figures on coins, and containing the figures to be impressed. Hence the arms-side of a coin is called the pile, and the head the cross, which was formerly in the place of the head. Hence cross and pile. 3. In heraldry, an ordinary in form of a point inverted or a stake sharpened.
PILE, n. L. pilum. The head of an arrow.
PILE, n. L. pilus. Properly, a hair hence, the fiber of wool, cotton and the like hence, the nap, the fine hairy substance of the surface of cloth.
PILE, To lay or throw into a heap to collect many things into a mass as, to pile wood or stones.
1. To bring into an aggregate to accumulate as, to pile quotations or comments. 2. To fill with something heaped. 3. To fill above the brim or top. 4. To break off the awns of threshed barley. Local.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [3]
pı̄l ( מדוּרה , medhūrāh , from dūr , "heap up"): Isaiah 30:33 , "The pile thereof is fire and much wood"; Ezekiel 24:9 , Ezekiel 24:10 , "I also will make the pile great. Heap on the wood, make the fire hot." Isaiah 30:33 may be paraphrased, 'the pyre thereof is of much wood, burning fiercely.' See Topheth .
