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sheet piles

sheet piles is the plural of sheet pile.

Meaning of sheet pile

Noun

sheet pile (plural sheet piles)

  1. (plural-normally) A corrugated steel pile, which is vertically driven into the ground to form a wall of sheet piling.
    • Once the floodwaters had receded and further damage inspections could be carried out, the engineering solution […] was to drill more than 120 sheet piles up to eight metres deep along a 115-metre section of the embankment.2020 May 20, Paul Stephen, “NR beats floods to secure tracks to Drax”, in Rail, page 58

Questions about sheet piles

What is sheet piles the plural of?
Sheet piles is the plural of sheet pile.

Words near sheet piles in the dictionary

  1. sheet music
  2. sheet of paper
  3. sheet pan
  4. sheet pans
  5. sheet pile
  6. sheet piles
  7. sheet piling
  8. sheet pilings
  9. sheet pizza
  10. sheet pizzas
  11. sheet protector

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