Dictionary Entry

piling

Part of SpeechverbPronunciation[ˈpʰaɪ̯ɫlɪŋ]Used In Literature ↓

(often used with the preposition "up") To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to accumulate

In a Sentence

“They were piling up wood on the wheelbarrow.”

Origin

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Common Phrases

. pilingpiling sheet

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Poetry examples for “piling”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

The faint damp wind that, ere the even, blows
Piling the west with many a tawny sheaf,
Then when the last glad wavering hours are mown

There were three in the meadow by the brook
Gathering up windrows, piling cocks of hay,
With an eye always lifted toward the west

That night, when he was busy at his job
Of piling bags along the parapet,
He thought how slow time went, stamping his feet,

I realized we kept piling up these presents because it was as good
as free advertising for the firms involved, but I couldn't be cynical. I

Then I heard the boom of the blood-lust song
# A rapidly piling climax of speed and racket. #
And a thigh-bone beating on a tin-pan gong.

Passion was turned to civic strength that day--
Piling the marbles, making fairer domes
With zeal that else had burned bright youth away.