pile driver

See also: piledriver

English

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pile driver

Noun

pile driver (plural pile drivers)

A machine for forcing a pile, a long beam, into the ground as part of the construction of a foundation; usually by raising a weight and then dropping it on the beam.
A person who hits or attacks forcefully or powerfully.
She sure is a pile driver

Synonyms

monkey hammer (the machine)

Derived terms

piledriver (wrestling move)

Translations

machine for forcing a pile into the ground

Afrikaans: heimasjien
Arabic: مِدَقّ m (midaqq), مَاكِنَة دَقّ الرَكَائِز f (mākina(t) daqq ar-rakāʔiz)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 打樁機／打桩机 (zh) (dǎzhuāngjī)
Czech: beranidlo n
Danish: rambuk
Dutch: heistelling (nl) f
Finnish: paalujuntta, juntta (fi)
French: sonnette (fr) f
German: Ramme (de) f
Hungarian: cölöpverőkos, cölöpverőgép
Italian: battipalo (it) m, berta (it) f
Japanese: 杭打ち機
Kazakh: please add this translation if you can
Latin: fistūca f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: påledriver m

Nynorsk: påledrivar m
Polish: kafar (pl) m
Portuguese: bate-estacas m
Romanian: sonetă (ro) f
Russian: копёр (ru) m (kopjór)
Spanish: martinete m
Swedish: pålkran (sv) c
Tagalog: martinete
Turkish: kazık çakıcı
Ukrainian: копер m (koper)

Adjective

pile driver (not comparable)

Forceful.
The champ ended the boxing match with a pile driver blow to his opponent’s jaw.

Translations

forceful

Dutch: keihard (nl), krachtig (nl)
Finnish: junttamainen (fi)

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