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piled

/paɪld/ adjective B1
  1. Formed from a pile or fagot. · piled iron
  2. Having a pile or point; pointed.
  3. Having a pile or nap.
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On the table in front of them were piled a number of letters and telegrams, which they were carefully sorting and docketing.
The Valley of Fear, p. 79 · C1
And they piled them here in mountain tops
A Child's Garden of Verses, p. 12 · C1
Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all round with crates and massive boxes.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, p. 25 · B2
When school went out Anne marched to her desk, ostentatiously took out everything therein, books and writing tablet, pen and ink, testament and arithmetic, and piled them neatly on her cracked slate.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 119 · C1

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