piler

From pile +‎ -er.

• Rhymes: -aɪlə(ɹ)

piler (plural pilers)

1. One who piles something
   • 2007 May 10, Penelope Green, “Order and Chaos in a Single Heartbeat”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Houses and photography sets seem to work better, he said, if “I exert a system of precision.” Ms. Ford, 33, said she is by nature a piler and stacker but has learned to follow what she described good-naturedly as “the Charlie Code.”

• peril, plier, prile

Inherited from Latin pīlāre (“to ram down”), from pīla (“column”).

• IPA^(key): /pi.le/

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piler

1. (transitive, cooking) to crush
2. (intransitive) to slam on the brakes of a vehicle, making it come to a sudden stop

• patates pilées

• pilon (“pestle”)

• “piler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• péril, plier, repli

piler

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of pilō

piler m or f

1. indefinite plural of pil

• pilar

piler f or m

1. indefinite feminine plural of pil

From Vulgar Latin *pilāre, from Latin pila.

piler oblique singular, m (oblique plural pilers, nominative singular pilers, nominative plural piler)

1. pillar

• French: pilier
• Norman: pilyi
• → Middle English:
  • English: pillar