0 objects positioned one on top of another: --
1 a strong column or post of wood, metal, or concrete that is pushed into the ground to help support a building --
2 the soft surface made by the ends of many short threads on a carpet or on cloth such as velvet: --
4 → haemorrhoids UK specialized --
Two further samples were taken from the middle of the stored manure piles after 3 months, 6 months and a year.
A second piece of evidence is the pile of bones at the rear of each chamber, which includes skulls and all types of bone.
Cassowaries consume the fruit whole, when ripe, and defecate seeds in piles away from parent trees, where seed predation rates are lower.
A heap of skulls was piled outside this front gate.
Unlike steamboats, the piling up of bodies did not result from a few dramatic accidents.
First they sprinkle the beach with pots using seawater, and after two or three sprinklings, they pile the sand up.
To the contrary, the illusions piled atop apparent mental causation are the building blocks of human psychology and social life.
She begins the novel in the assumed persona of a young widowed painter who moves into a crumbling pile in an isolated village.
