piling
/ˈpʌɪlɪŋ
/noun [mass noun]
Heavy stakes or posts installed to support the foundations of a superstructure: wooden piling supporting a complex of waterfront buildings [count noun]: construction workers carry out their work behind the steel pilings...
- Round the generous trench is a border of sheet steel piling which acts both as a means of defining the excavation and a railing.
- The emphatic verticals of piling mark out the eastern and northern peripheries of the car park.
- Once we have the demolition completed, we will be able to start on the new piling.
Rhymes
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