Definition of pile driver
: a machine for driving down piles with a drop hammer or a steam or air hammer
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Examples of pile driver in a Sentence
He hit a pile driver into the net from 20 yards out.
Recent Examples of pile driver from the Web
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Buy Photo The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited a Blackwood firm for safety violations in the death of a pile driver at a construction site on the Camden waterfront in September.
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But his memoir, like Guo’s, also captures a China where the syncopation of pile drivers only adds to the drumbeat of national optimism.
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With labor gangs, mechanized excavators, pile drivers, dredges and dynamite, the largest single infrastructure project in New Orleans history progressed steadily over the next 15 months.
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Saturday’s good times make up for the rest of the week’s hard work and hangover in this song by Mr. Bartholomew, as Domino’s piano triplets become a pile driver.
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Read it and realize that the bulldozers and pile drivers are probably not too far away.
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With Trump still promising the wall, Vidaurri figures it’s only a matter of time until Homeland Security arrives with bulldozers and pile drivers.
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The pages that follow introduce children to the thrill of bulldozers, graders, skippers, excavators, cranes and pile drivers.
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At Tennessee, Vols fans have butchered Butch Jones since Georgia delivered a pile driver in a 41-0 rout last Saturday at Neyland Stadium.
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First Known Use of pile driver
1766
PILE DRIVER Defined for English Language Learners
pile driver
Definition of pile driver for English Language Learners
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: a machine used for hammering posts into the ground
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: a very hard kick or hit
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