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Definition of "piles" []

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "piles" in a sentence
  • "Why, he has written a great big book, all on long sheets of paper -- piles, and _piles_, and PILES of them, and even that hasn't done it!"
  • "[Illustration: J.J. Bradford, Esq.] _Dear Sir_ -- I was a great sufferer for thirty years from piles, and take great pleasure in bearing testimony to the fact, that since you treated me, seven years since, I _have not had a symptom of piles_."
  • "And she said they put what she called piles of paper in small boxes."