3. A funeral pile; a pyre. Dryden.
4. A large building, or mass of buildings. The pile o'erlooked the town and drew the fight. Dryden.
5. (Iron Manuf.)
Defn: Same as Fagot, n., 2.
6. (Elec.)
Defn: A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals, as copper and zinc, laid up with disks of cloth or paper moistened with acid water between them, for producing a current of electricity; — commonly called Volta's pile, voltaic pile, or galvanic pile.
Note: The term is sometimes applied to other forms of apparatus designed to produce a current of electricity, or as synonymous with battery; as, for instance, to an apparatus for generating a current of electricity by the action of heat, usually called a thermopile.
7. Etym: [F. pile pile, an engraved die, L. pila a pillar.]
Defn: The reverse of a coin. See Reverse. Cross and pile. See under
Cross.
— Dry pile. See under Dry.
PILE
Pile, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Piled; p. pr. & vb. n. Piling.]