" piles "

[Noun]  | "pile" | \ ˈpī(-ə)l \

1: a long slender column usually of timber, steel, or reinforced concrete driven into the ground to carry a vertical load

2: a wedge-shaped heraldic charge usually placed vertically with the broad end up

3: a target-shooting arrowhead without cutting edges

Origin: 12th century ;

 Middle English, dart, quill, pole driven into the ground, from Old English pīl, from Latin pilum javelin;

[Noun]  | "pile" 

1: a quantity of things or people heaped together

2: a heap of wood for burning a corpse or a sacrifice

3: any great number or quantity : lot

Origin: 15th century ;

 Middle English pier of a bridge, stack, heap, from Middle French pille pier of a bridge, from Latin pila pillar;

[Noun]  | "pile" 

1: a single hemorrhoid

2: hemorrhoids

Origin: 15th century ;

 Middle English pilez, plural, from Medieval Latin pili, perhaps from Latin pila ball;

[Noun]  | "hem*or*rhoid" | \ ˈhem-ˌrȯid \

1: an abnormal mass of dilated and engorged blood vessels in swollen tissue that occurs internally in the anal canal or externally around the anus, that may be marked by bleeding, pain, or itching, and that when occurring internally often protrude through the outer sphincter of the anus and when occurring externally may lead to thrombosis —usually used in plural—called also piles

Origin: 14th century ;

 Middle English emeroides, plural, from Anglo-French emorroides, from Latin haemorrhoidae, from Greek haimorrhoides, from haimorrhoos flowing with blood, from haimo- hem- + rhein to flow {mat|stream|};

[Noun]  | "pile" 

1: a coat or surface of usually short close fine furry hairs

2: a velvety surface produced by an extra set of filling yarns that form raised loops which are cut and sheared

Origin: 15th century ;

 Middle English, in plural piles "hair, plumage," borrowed from Anglo-French peil, pil "hair, coat of animal hair, cloth with thick nap" (continental Old French peil, poil "hair"), going back to Latin pilus "hair," of obscure origin;

  * Note : Anglo-French pil for peil, apparently yielding long in Middle English, is exceptional. The Oxford English Dictionary, third edition, proposes that the word is "partly" borrowed directly from Latin. Middle English Dictionary suggests borrowing from Middle Dutch pijl.;

[Noun]  | "atomic reactor" 

1: reactor

Origin: 1942 ;

[Noun]  | "dog*pile" | \ ˈdȯg-ˌpī(-ə)l \

1: a mass of people who have piled on top of one another (as in celebrating a sports victory or while fighting); also : the act or an instance of forming a dogpile

2: a barrage of criticism, insults, etc. directed at someone or something by many people

Origin: 1921 ;

[Verb]  | "pile" 

1: to drive piles into

Origin: 15th century ;

[Verb]  | "pile" 

1: to lay or place in a pile : stack

2: to heap in abundance : load

3: to collect little by little into a mass —usually used with up

Origin: 14th century ;

 Middle English, from {see: |pile:4|pile:4};

[Verb]  | "dogpile" 

1: to form a dogpile around someone especially as part of a fight or celebration

2: to direct a barrage of criticism, insults, etc. at (someone or something) —often used with on

Origin: circa 1947 ;

[Noun]  | "piles" 

[Noun]  | "piles" 

[Noun]  | "pile" 

[Noun]  | "pile" 

[Verb]  | "piles" 

[Verb]  | "pile" 

[Verb]  | "pile (up)"