n A mass of things heaped together; a heap.
n (informal) A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind of selection process.
n A mass formed in layers.
n A funeral pile; a pyre.
n (slang) A large amount of money.
n A large building, or mass of buildings.
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.
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 electricity; a voltaic pile, or galvanic pile.
n (architecture, civil engineering) A beam, pole, or pillar, driven completely into the ground.
n An atomic pile; an early form of nuclear reactor.
n (obsolete) The reverse (or tails) of a coin.
n A list or league
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
v (transitive) To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.
v (transitive) To add something to a great number.
v (transitive) (of vehicles) To create a hold-up.
v (transitive, military) To place (guns, muskets, etc.) together in threes so that they can stand upright, supporting each other.
n (obsolete) A dart; an arrow.
n The head of an arrow or spear.
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.
n (heraldry) One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.
v (transitive) To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.
n (usually in the plural) A hemorrhoid.
n Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly countable, now treated as a collective singular.)
n The raised hairs, loops or strands of a fabric; the nap of a cloth.
v (transitive) To give a pile to; to make shaggy.
n A surname.