noun
piling
PEYE-lihng
noun
1
A structural support post, often one of several driven into the ground beneath a building or pier.
"Barnacles clung to the wooden pilings under the old pier."
2
The act of heaping things up.
"The piling of boxes in the hallway made it hard to get through."
How to Use Piling
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishEither the support beams under a structure, or the act of stacking things.
Common pairings
wooden pilings
a piling driver
Word Forms
pilings plural
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Barnacles clung to the wooden _____ under the old pier.