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piling

noun as in pier

noun as in pillar

noun as in retaining wall

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When the 11th Street bridges were being reconstructed, Harriet Tregoning, the District’s then-director of planning, sought to save the piers and pilings of one of the old bridges.

Prosecutors allege the 22-year-old drunkenly collided with a bridge piling after an oyster roast.

Evidence is piling up that as men do more of the caregiving, violence against women falls.

The video showing cops piling on Eric Garner in Staten Island for refusing arrest elicited outrage across ideological lines.

Everything serene, snow piling on trees, over lawns, on houses, before we realize that all the snow is poisoned with radiation.

Nearby a family of Turkish Kurds busied themselves in their fields piling vegetables onto a donkey-drawn cart.

And the stories keep piling on, even in the most unlikely of Prankster-friendly places.

The embankment or road-bed was commenced by gigantic piling, and is very broad and substantial.

Six days of the week he worked, piling up the passing treasures of this world.

But, just as they were piling some more leaves in the hollow stump, they heard many voices of men shouting in the woods.

Well, we'll simmer down when the turn comes, and though I'm piling up dollars, I'll be thankful.

Tim got down on the hearth and began piling paper and kindling and logs in the fireplace.

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On this page you'll find 107 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to piling, such as: girder, joist, pillar, plank, pole, and shaft.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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