Emily Dickinson Lexicon

PILE, v.t.

1. To lay or throw into a heap; to collect many things into a mass, as, to pile wood or stones.
2. To bring into an aggregate; to accumulate; as, to pile quotations or comments. – Atterbury. Felton.
3. To fill with something heaped. – Abbot.
4. To fill above the brim or top.
5. To break off the awns of threshed barley. [Local.]
6. To drive piles. Sheet pile, to drive a piling of planks edge to edge. Whence the noun sheet-piling.