# piled

Pronunciation: say "PYLD" /paɪld/

## Verb

1. Simple past tense and past participle of pile. — simple past and past participle of pile
   - Simple: Past tense and past participle of pile. Use this form when the stacking already happened.
   - _Snow piled against the doorway overnight._
   - _The workers had piled the crates against the warehouse wall._

## Adjective

2. Having a pile or nap: a surface of raised threads or fibers, as on velvet or carpet.
   - Simple: Having a soft surface of short raised threads, like a carpet or velvet.
   - _The richly piled velvet caught the lamplight beautifully._
   - _A finely piled towel absorbs water more readily than a flat-woven one._
3. Having a pile, or point, at the end; ending in a sharp tip.
   - Simple: Having a sharp point at one end.
4. Of iron or steel, formed from a pile or fagot, produced by forge-welding a stacked bundle of bars into a single mass.
   - Simple: Made by heating and hammering together a bundle of iron bars.
   - _Victorian engineers trusted piled iron for its toughness under load._
   - _The restorer confirmed the railings were piled wrought iron, not cast._

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