DCHP-2

piling Hist. DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

• n.

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

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

  • 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. . . .