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A mass of things heaped together; a heap.

(informal) A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind of selection process.

A mass formed in layers.

A funeral pile; a pyre.

(slang) A large amount of money.

A large building, or mass of buildings.

A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a fagot.

A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals (especially copper and zinc), laid up with disks of cloth or paper moistened with acid water between them, for producing a current of electricity; a voltaic pile, or galvanic pile.

(beam or pole driven into the ground) (civil engineering) A beam, pole, or pillar, driven completely into the ground, usually as one of a group that constitutes a foundation.

An atomic pile; an early form of nuclear reactor.

(obsolete) The reverse (or tails) of a coin.

A list or league

(often used with the preposition "up") To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to accumulate

To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.

To add something to a great number.

(of vehicles) To create a hold-up.

(military) To place (guns, muskets, etc.) together in threes so that they can stand upright, supporting each other.

To form a pile or heap. +

(weapon) (obsolete) A dart; an arrow.

The head of an arrow or spear.

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.

(heraldiccharge) One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.

To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.

(in the plural) A hemorrhoid.

Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly countable, now treated as a collective singular.)

The raised hairs, loops or strands of a fabric; the nap of a cloth.

To give a pile to; to make shaggy.