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
- mechanochemistry
- mechano-electric
- mechano-electrical
- mechanographic
- mechanology
- mechanomorphic
- mechanomorphism
- mechanoreception
- mechanoreceptive
- mechanoreceptor
- mechanosensation
- mechanosensitive
- mechanosensitivity
- mechanosensory
- mechanotherapeutic
- mechanotherapy
- mechatronics
- Mechelen
- Mechitarist
- Mechlin
- Mechlin lace
- mechoacan
- supplier
- supply
- supply and demand