Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Piling

Piling , noun

[See Pile a heap.]

1.
The act of heaping up.
2.
(Iron Manufacturing) The process of building up, heating, and working, fagots, or piles, to form bars, etc.

Piling , noun

[See Pile a stake.]

A series of piles; piles considered collectively; as, the piling of a bridge.
Collocations (2)
Pug piling , sheet piles connected together at the edges by dovetailed tongues and grooves.
Sheet piling , a series of piles made of planks or half logs driven edge to edge, -- used to form the walls of cofferdams, etc.