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   Pile, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Piled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Piling.]
   1. To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to accumulate; to amass; -- often with up; as, “to pile up wood”. “Hills piled on hills.” Dryden. “Life piled on life.” Tennyson.
   
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   The labor of an age in piled stones. Milton.
   
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   2. To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.
   
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   To pile arms To pile muskets (Mil.), to place three guns together so that they may stand upright, supporting each other; to stack arms.
   
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   Piled (?), a. [From 2d Pile.] Having a pile or point; pointed. [Obs.] “Magus threw a spear well piled.”  Chapman.
   
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   Piled, a. [From 1d Pile.] Having a pile or nap. “Three-piled velvet.”  L. Barry (1611).
   
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   Piled, a. [From 6d Pile.] (Iron Manuf.) Formed from a pile or fagot; as, “piled iron”.
   
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