sheath pile

1. 1.

   a pile in a row of piles driven side by side to retain earth or prevent seepage

   Synonymssheet pilesheet piling

   Broaderpile

Questions about sheath pile

What does sheath pile mean?

sheath pile means "a pile in a row of piles driven side by side to retain earth or prevent seepage".

What is another word for sheath pile?

Close synonyms include sheet pile, sheet piling. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sheath pile a common word?

sheath pile is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.