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pilement

noun

Etymology

From pile + -ment.

  1. derived from pīlum — “heavy javelin”
  2. inherited from *pīl✻
  3. inherited from pīl
  4. inherited from pile
  5. suffixed as pilement — “pile + ment”

Definitions

  1. An accumulation

    An accumulation; a heap.

    • What! had he nought whereby he might be known, / But costly pilements of some curious stone?

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for pilement. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA