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STACKS |
Piles |
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HEAPS |
Piles |
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HAYSTACKS |
Dried grass piles |
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ACCELERATES |
Piles on the pace |
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LOPSIDED |
Odd piles are crooked |
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EMEROIDS |
Hemorrhoids; piles; tumors; boils. |
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HEAPER |
One who heaps, piles, or amasses. |
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BALK |
To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles. |
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FISTUCA |
An instrument used by the ancients in driving piles. |
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PILE |
To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen
with piles. |
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PILING |
A series of piles; piles considered collectively; as, the
piling of a bridge. |
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WALE |
A timber bolted to a row of piles to secure them together and
in position. |
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OYSTER-GREEN |
A green membranous seaweed (Ulva) often found growing
on oysters but common on stones, piles, etc. |
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PALIFICATION |
The act or practice of driving piles or posts into
the ground to make it firm. |
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ESTACADE |
A dike of piles in the sea, a river, etc., to check the
approach of an enemy. |
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WHARFING |
A mode of facing sea walls and embankments with planks
driven as piles and secured by ties. |
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STARLING |
A structure of piles driven round the piers of a bridge
for protection and support; -- called also sterling. |
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PILEWORT |
A plant (Ranunculus Ficaria of Linnaeus) whose tuberous
roots have been used in poultices as a specific for the piles. |
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RAMMER |
An instrument for driving anything with force; as, a rammer
for driving stones or piles, or for beating the earth to more solidity |
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NUMMULATION |
The arrangement of the red blood corpuscles in
rouleaux, like piles of coins, as when a drop of human blood is
examined under the microscope. |
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BORING |
The act or process of one who, or that which, bores; as,
the boring of cannon; the boring of piles and ship timbers by certain
marine mollusks. |
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SHIPWORM |
Any long, slender, worm-shaped bivalve mollusk of Teredo
and allied genera. The shipworms burrow in wood, and are destructive to
wooden ships, piles of wharves, etc. See Teredo. |
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GRIBBLE |
A small marine isopod crustacean (Limnoria lignorum or L.
terebrans), which burrows into and rapidly destroys submerged timber,
such as the piles of wharves, both in Europe and America. |
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PONTOON |
... with
cranes, capstans, and other machinery, used in careening ships, raising
weights, drawing piles, etc., chiefly in the Mediterranean; a ligh... |
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HEMORRHOIDS |
Livid and painful swellings formed by the dilation
of the blood vessels around the margin of, or within, the anus, from
which blood or mucus is occasionally discharged; piles; emerods. |