sheet pile
noun
one of a number of piles, usually flat, driven side by side to retain earth, etc., or to prevent seepage into an excavation.
sheet piling
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a word derived from
sheet pile.
Example Sentences
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The sheet piling was at the end of its useful life.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 19, 2019
So far, more than 13,000 linear feet of steel sheet piling has been installed.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 2, 2014
Once when I had to drive some thin sheet piles, I made a movable guide frame, the side against the sheet piling being planed and greased.
From Scamping Tricks and Odd Knowledge Occasionally Practised upon Public Works by John Henry Newman
Then another ring of sheet piling was driven inside the other two.
From The Industrial Canal and Inner Harbor of New Orleans History, Description and Economic Aspects of Giant Facility Created to Encourage Industrial Expansion and Develop Commerce by Thomas Ewing Dabney
The cofferdam consisted of triple-lap sheet piling, of the Wakefield pattern, the planks being 2 ins. thick, and spiked together so as to give a cofferdam wall 6 ins thick.
From Concrete Construction Methods and Costs by Halbert Powers Gillette
