Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bridge consisting of a platform supported by piles.
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Poor-House, an institution to become hereafter conspicuous to every tourist who shall prefer the Baltimore and Potomac to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad; for the new line crosses the Eastern Branch by a pile-bridge nearly in the rear of the poor-house, and let us hope that when the whistle, like
Tales of the Chesapeake George Alfred Townsend 1877
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