pile shoe

British

noun

Also called: shoe. an iron casting shaped to a point and fitted to a lower end of a wooden or concrete pile

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Well, 12 by 12 is 144, and 4 by 4 is 16, and therefore the pile end has a bearing area upon the pile shoe of one-ninth of the area of the pile.

From Scamping Tricks and Odd Knowledge Occasionally Practised upon Public Works by Newman, John Henry

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