n. The pointed head of a staff, pike, arrow, or the like, when not barbed, generally of a rounded form and serving as a ferrule; also, an arrow.n. A javelin.n. [The above is an imitation of the following passage:n. A pointed stake; specifically, in architecture and engineering, a beam, heavy, generally of timber, often the roughly trimmed trunk of a tree, pointed or not at the end and driven into the soil for the support of some superstructure or to form part of a wall, as of a Coffer-dam or quay.n. A post such as that used in the exercise of the quintain.To furnish with a pile or head.To furnish, strengthen, or support with piles; drive piles into.n. A pillar; specifically, a small pillar of iron, en- graved on the top with the image to be given to the under side of a coin stamped upon it; hence, the under side or reverse of the coin itself: opposed to the cross.n. A tower or castle: same as peel.n. A large building or mass of buildings of stone or brick; a massive edifice: as, a noble pile; a venerable pile.n. A pyramid; a pyramidal figure; specifically, in heraldry, a bearing consisting of a pyramidal or wedge-shaped figure (generally assumed to represent an arrow-head), which, unless otherwise blazoned, seems to emerge from the top of the escutcheon with its point downward. It is usually considered one of the subordinaries, but by some authors as an ordinary. See pile, 1, and phrases below.n. A heap consisting of an indefinite number of separate objects, commonly of the same kind, arranged of purpose or by natural causes in a more or less regular (cubical, pyramidal, cylindrical, or conical) form; a large mass, or a large quantity: as, a pile of stones; a pile of wood; a pile of money or of grain.n. Specifically A funeral pile; a pyre. See funeral pile, under funeral.n. An oblong rectangular mass of cut lengths of puddled bars of iron, laid together and ready for being rolled after being raised to a welding-temperature in a reheating-furnace.n. In electricity, a series of plates of two dissimilar metals, such as copper and zinc, laid one above the other alternately, with cloth or paper placed between each pair, moistened with an acid solution, for producing a current of electricity. See electricity.n. A large amount of money: a fortune: as, he has made his pile.To lay or throw into a heap; heap, or heap up; collect into a pile or mass: as, to pile wood or stones.To bring into an aggregate; accumulate: as, to pile quotations or comments.Same as fagot, 2n. Hair.n. Specifically, in hunting, in the plural, the hair or fur of an animal, as the boar, wolf, fox, etc.; hence, hairs collectively; pelage.n. The lay or set of the hair.n. A fiber, as of wool or cotton.n. In entomology, thinly set fine hairs which are ordinarily rather long.n. Nap of a regular and closely set kind, consisting of threads standing close together and shaved off smooth, so as to form a uniform and even surface.To furnish with pile; make shaggy.To break off the awns of (threshed barley).A Middle English form of pill.n. In gambling, all the capital a player has to lose on the game; all the chips in front of a player.n. A single hemorrhoidal tumor. See piles.n. In artillery, a heap of shot or shells piled up by horizontal courses in parallel tiers into a pyramidal or wedge-like form, the form being determined by that of the base, which may be a triangle, a square, or a rectangle. In a triangular pile the base is an equilateral triangle, and there is one sphere at the apex. The numbers in the successive horizontal tiers, reckoned from the top downward, are the triangular numbers 1, 3, 6, 10 … ½ n (n + 1).To arrange (spheres) so as to occupy the minimum of volume.To form a pile or heap; often with up: as, his debts piled up.