DCHP-3

piling

Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

in clearing land, putting logs and brush in piles for burning.

See: burning(def. 1),plan-heap

Quotations

1845
. . . the wife . . . toiled with him in piling and fencing as well as in planting and reaping.
1931
There were "piling bees" for piling logs, "husking bees" for husking Indian corn. . . .