ˈpile-work
[f. pile n.1 3 + work n.]
1. Work constructed or consisting of piles.
| 1702 Lond. Gaz. No. 3781/3 A new Pile-work is run out about 80 Foot from the Peer-head of Minehead. 1726 Leoni Alberti's Archit. I. 72/2 Make the pile-work deep and broad every way. 1896 Daily News 26 Sept. 2/2 In its fall it smashed the wooden pile work. |
2. A prehistoric structure of piles in a lake.
| 1863 Lyell Antiq. Man 28 The pile-works of Chamblon, which are of the bronze period, must be at the least 3300 years old. 1865 Lubbock Preh. Times v. 169 The age of the Swiss Pileworks was at an end. |