▪ I. piled, ppl. a.1
(paɪld)
[f. pile n.1 or v.1]
† 1. Her. Of arms: Charged with piles: see pile n.1 4. Obs.
| 1486 Bk. St. Albans, Her. E v b, Off pilit armys now here it shall be shewyt. |
† 2. Of a javelin or lance: Having a pile or head: see pile n.1 1 b. Obs.
| c 1611 Chapman Iliad xv. 211 At Dolops, Meges threw A speare well pilde. 1615 ― Odyss. xx. 201 Took to his hand his sharp-piled lance. |
3. Built on piles.
| 1905 Blackw. Mag. Mar. 340/2 To pole up stream past piled village and fertile rice-flats. |
▪ II. piled, ppl. a.2
[f. pile v.2 + -ed1.]
a. Laid or reared in a pile or piles, heaped. Also with up.
| 1613 W. Browne Brit. Past. i. v. (1616) 98 While the piled stones Re-eccoed her lamentable grones. 1630 Milton On Shakespear, What needs my Shakspear for his honour'd Bones, The labour of an age in piled Stones? 1715–20 Pope Iliad xxiii. 207 Achilles cover'd with their fat the dead, And the pil'd victims round the body spread. 1791 C. Smith Celestina (ed. 2) III. 64 Behind those piled-up stones against which you leaned. 1848 C. A. Johns Week at Lizard 264 The piled appearance of the rocks. 1880 Browning Dram. Idylls, Pan & Luna 37. 1898 P. Geddes Let. Feb. in P. Boardman Worlds of Patrick Geddes (1978) vi. 167 The piled-up picturesqueness of Old Edinburgh. 1935 C. S. Forester African Queen vi. 109 The African Queen..reared up as she hit the piled-up water. 1948 H. Innes Blue Ice vii. 191 Mile on ghastly mile of piled-up snow-capped peaks. 1978 ‘L. Black’ Foursome i. 7 The piled-up dishes, bowls, plates. |
b. With all sails set.
| 1851 H. Melville Moby Dick II. ix. 62 With every mast-head manned, the piled-up craft rolled down before the wind. |
c. Crashed, wrecked.
| 1939 J. Steinbeck Grapes of Wrath vi. 61 They ain't whole, out lonely on the road in a piled-up car. They ain't alive no more. 1943 C. H. Ward-Jackson Piece of Cake 48 Piled in or up, crashed. |
▪ III. piled, ppl. a.3
[f. pile n.5 + -ed2.]
1. Covered with pile, hair, or fur.
| 1426 Lydg. De Guil. Pilgr. 13703 Off look and cher ryht monstrous, Pyled and seynt as any kaat, And moosy-heryd as a raat. |
2. Having a pile or long nap, as velvet.
double-piled, three-piled, etc.; see pile n.5 2.
| 1589 R. Harvey Pl. Perc. (1860) 20 My plain speeches may haue as much wooll..as is in your double pild veluet. 1603 Shakes. Meas. for M. i. ii. 33–5 Thour't a three pild-piece I warrant thee; I had as liefe be a Lyst of an English Kersey, as be pil'd, as thou art pil'd, for a French Veluet. 1808 Scott Marm. v. viii, His cloak, of crimson velvet piled, Trimmed with the fur of marten wild. 1881 Morris in Mackail Life (1899) II. 55, I don't say that any flat-woven stuff can stand sunlight as well as a piled material. |