Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Piles

Piles , noun, plural

[Latin pila a ball. Compare Pill a medicine.]

[The singular pile is sometimes used.]

(Medicine) The small, troublesome tumors or swellings about the anus and lower part of the rectum which are technically called hemorrhoids. See Hemorrhoids. [The singular pile is sometimes used.]
Collocations (1)
Blind piles , hemorrhoids which do not bleed.