piles

1. A mass of things heaped together; a heap.
2. A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind of selection process.

   When we were looking for a new housemate, we put the nice woman on the "maybe" pile, and the annoying guy on the "no" pile

3. A mass formed in layers.

   a pile of shot

4. A funeral pile; a pyre.
5. A large amount of money.

   He made a pile from that invention of his.

6. A large building, or mass of buildings.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. An atomic pile; an early form of nuclear reactor.
10. The reverse (or tails) of a coin.
11. A list or league

1. (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

   They were piling up wood on the wheelbarrow.

2. To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.

   We piled the camel with our loads.

3. To add something to a great number.
4. (of vehicles) To create a hold-up.
5. To place (guns, muskets, etc.) together in threes so that they can stand upright, supporting each other.

1. A dart; an arrow.
2. The head of an arrow or spear.
3. 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.
4. One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.

verb

To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.

noun

(usually in the plural) A hemorrhoid.

1. Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly countable, now treated as a collective singular.)
2. The raised hairs, loops or strands of a fabric; the nap of a cloth.

verb

To give a pile to; to make shaggy.

1. (piles of) A large amount of.

   He must earn piles of money.

1. Haemorrhoids.

   Many women get piles when pregnant.