pile, piling

pile:

8. N-COUNT : usu pl

Piles are wooden, concrete, or metal posts which are pushed into the ground and on which buildings or bridges are built. Piles are often used in very wet areas so that the buildings do not flood.    

• settlements of wooden houses, set on piles along the shore.
  

piling: 

N-COUNT : usu pl

Pilings are wooden, concrete, or metal posts which are pushed into the ground and on which buildings or bridges are built. Pilings are often used in very wet areas so that the buildings do not flood.      

• bridges set on stone pilings.   
• =  pile   

.... cobuild

piling: 

1. The act of driving piles.

2. Piles considered as a group.

3. A structure composed of piles.

piling - a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure spile, stilt, pile pillar, column - (architecture) a tall vertical cylindrical structure standing upright and used to support a structure sheath pile, sheet pile, sheet piling - a pile in a row of piles driven side by side to retain earth or prevent seepage

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