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palification

palification noun: the act or practice of driving piles or posts into the ground to make it firm.

Noun

palification (uncountable)

  1. The act or practice of driving piles or posts into the ground to make it firm.
    • Among which notes I haue sayd nothing of Palification, or Pyling of the Groundplot1624, Henry Wotton, The Elements of Architecture, […], London: […] Iohn Bill, →OCLC
    • After experiment and discussion, larch was chosen as the wood for palification[…]1928, Laura Maria Roberts Ragg, Crises in Venetian history

Origin of palification

From Latin palus (“a stake”) + -ficare (“to make”, in comparative). Compare French palification. See -fy.

Questions about palification

What does palification mean?
Palification means the act or practice of driving piles or posts into the ground to make it firm.
What part of speech is palification?
Palification is a noun.

Words near palification in the dictionary

  1. palicid
  2. palicids
  3. Palid I
  4. Palid II
  5. palifermin
  6. palification
  7. paliform
  8. paligorskite
  9. paligorskites
  10. paligraphia
  11. Paligsahan

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