Defn: The process of building up, heating, and working, fagots, or piles, to form bars, etc.
PILING
Pil"ing, n. Etym: [See Pile a stake.]
Defn: A series of piles; piles considered collectively; as, the piling of a bridge. Pug piling, sheet piles connected together at the edges by dovetailed tongues and grooves. — Sheet piling, a series of piles made of planks or half logs driven edge to edge, — used to form the walls of cofferdams, etc.
PILL
Pill, n. Etym: [Cf. Peel skin, or Pillion.]
Defn: The peel or skin. [Obs.] "Some be covered over with crusts, or hard pills, as the locusts." Holland.
PILL
Pill, v. i.
Defn: To be peeled; to peel off in flakes.
PILL Pill, v. t. Etym: [Cf. L. pilare to deprive of hair, and E. pill, n. (above).]
1. To deprive of hair; to make bald. [Obs.]
2. To peel; to make by removing the skin. [Jacob] pilled white streaks . . . in the rods. Gen. xxx. 37.