sheet pile

1. 1.

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

   Synonymssheath pilesheet piling

   Broaderpile

Questions about sheet pile

What does sheet pile mean?

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

What is another word for sheet pile?

Close synonyms include sheath 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 sheet pile a common word?

sheet 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.