Meaning & use
Piling
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A structural support made of long stakes or columns driven vertically into the ground to support a building, pier, or foundation.
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Workers drove steel piling deep into the riverbed before construction began.
The old pier's wooden piling had rotted after decades in seawater.
A note on using this word
Piling is a mass noun referring collectively to piles used in foundations; a single support is called a 'pile.'
Words with a similar meaning
pilework
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Another way to use it
2. verb
The action of heaping objects into a stack.
He spent the afternoon piling firewood against the shed.
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