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Results for pile
1. A hair; hence, the fiber of wool, cotton, and the like; also, the nap when thick or heavy, as of carpeting and velvet.
2. The head of an arrow or spear.
3. 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.
4. To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.
5. A mass of things heaped together; a heap; as, a pile of stones; a pile of wood.
6. 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.
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