piled

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paɪld/

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• Rhymes: -aɪld

Verb

piled

1. simple past and past participle of pile

Adjective

piled (not comparable)

1. (iron manufacturing) Formed from a pile or fagot.

   piled iron

2. Having a pile or point; pointed.
   • [1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume (please specify the book number), London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:

     Meges threw a spear well piled.

     The spelling has been modernized.

3. Having a pile or nap.
   • 1816, Henry Hart Milman, Fazio:

     Three-piled velvet.

Derived terms

• unpiled

Anagrams

• diple, lepid, pleid, plied