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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A machine that drives a pile by raising a weight between guideposts and dropping it on the head of the pile.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A workman occupied in driving piles.
  • noun A machine or contrivance, usually worked by steam, for driving piles.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A machine for forcing a pile, a long beam, into the ground as part of the construction of a foundation; usually by raising a weight and then dropping it on the beam.
  • noun A person who hits or attacks forcefully or powerfully.
  • adjective forceful

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a machine that drives piling into the ground

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