1. n. (rail) a steam locomotive of the 4-8-2 wheel arrangement. (swp, 4-8-2)
2. n. A large mass of earth and rock, rising above the common level of the earth or adjacent land, usually given by geographers as above 1000 feet in height (or 304.8 metres), though such masses may still b
Everest is the highest mountain in the world.
We spent the weekend hiking in the mountains.
3. n. A large amount.
There's still a mountain of work to do.
4. n. A very large person or thing.
He was a real mountain of a man, standing seven feet tall.
5. n. (figuratively) A difficult task or challenge.
6. n. (slang) A woman's large breast.
7. n. (cartomancy) The twenty-first Lenormand card.
2. n. (figuratively, informal) A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind of selection process.
When we were looking for a new housemate, we put the nice woman on the "maybe" pile, and the annoying guy on the "no" pile.
3. n. A mass formed in layers.
a pile of shot
4. n. A funeral pile; a pyre.
5. n. A large building, or mass of buildings.
6. n. A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a fagot.
7. n. A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals (especially copper and zinc), laid up with disks of cloth or paper moistened with acid water between them, for producing a current of elec
8. n. An atomic pile; an early form of nuclear reactor.
9. n. (obsolete) The reverse (or tails) of a coin.
10. n. (figuratively) A list or league
11. v. (transitive, often used with the preposition "up") To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to accumulate
They were piling up wood on the wheelbarrow.
12. v. To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.
We piled the camel with our loads.
13. v. To add something to a great number.
14. v. (of vehicles) To create a hold-up.
15. v. (transitive, military) To place (guns, muskets, etc.) together in threes so that they can stand upright, supporting each other.
16. n. (obsolete) A dart; an arrow.
17. n. The head of an arrow or spear.
18. n. A large stake, or piece of pointed timber, steel etc., driven into the earth or sea-bed for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc.
19. n. (heraldry) One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.
20. v. To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.
21. n. (usually in plural) A hemorrhoid.
22. n. Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly , now treated as a collective singular.)
23. n. The raised hairs, loops or strands of a fabric; the nap of a cloth.
