sheet piling

1. 1.

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

   Synonymssheet pilesheath pile

   Broaderpile

Questions about sheet piling

What does sheet piling mean?

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

What is another word for sheet piling?

Close synonyms include sheet pile, sheath pile. 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 piling a common word?

sheet piling 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.