piled

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Of rocks up-piled, and pines on either hand,

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  1. Having a pile, as an arrow.
  2. Supported on or by piles. Among those who build on piles many live and sleep on the ground, using the piled part of the house for other purposes. Nature, XXX. 169.
  3. In iron-making, made up of bars, fagots, or piles, placed together and welded.

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  • The room, with its great comfortable chairs, deep-piled oriental rug, solid table exquisitely inlaid with ivory, reflected the power and solid dignity of Doc Savage Doc examined his patient more closely and administered a hypodermic Long Tom hovered close. —  034 - The Fantastic Island
  • Dor questioned the platform on which the furs had been piled, and learned that a contingent from another village had sneaked in and stolen them. —  Centaur Aisle
  • I hope you will change your mind Miss Clyde took a careful survey of a shelf where sheets were piled, and from it she filled her mending basket Delia has overlooked these in my absence," she said, almost apologetically. —  Blue Bonnet in Boston or, Boarding-School Days at Miss North's
  • While, since the aristocratic world had not yet left town, the boxes--piled, tier above tier, without break of dress-circle or gallery, right up to the lofty roof--were well-filled. —  The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance
  • Under the influence of such thoughts the clouds cleared away from Guy's brow, and he raised his eyes, which for some minutes had been cast down, with a hopeful gaze to the heavens There he soon became lost in admiration of the clouds that were floating in masses of amber and gold; rising over each other--piled up, mass upon mass--grotesque sometimes in form, solid yet soft in aspect, and inexpressibly grand, as a whole, in their towering magnificence There were signs, however, among the gorgeous beauties of this cloud-land, that were significant to eyes accustomed to read the face of the sky. —  The Lifeboat
 

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