Meanings
plural sheet piles
- plural normallyA corrugated steel pile, which is vertically driven into the ground to form a wall of sheet piling.
Once the floodwaters had receded and further damage inspections could be carried out, the engineering solution […] was to drill more than 120 sheet piles up to eight metres deep along a 115-metre section of the embankment.
2020 May 20, Paul Stephen, “NR beats floods to secure tracks to Drax”, in Rail, page 58
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna pile in a row of piles driven side by side to retain earth or prevent seepage
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Cite this entry
sheet pile. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sheet%20pile
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