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Pile driver   /paɪl drˈaɪvər/   Listen
Pile driver

noun
1.
A machine that drives piling into the ground.






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"Pile driver" Quotes from Famous Books



... wonderful labor-saving machinery which did away with the slow, primitive methods our pioneer engineers had been obliged to employ. The steam shovel was invented, the traveling crane, the gigantic derrick, the pile driver. The early railroad builders had few if any of these devices and were forced to do by hand the work that machinery could have performed in much less time. When one thinks back it is pathetic to consider the number of lives that were sacrificed which under present-day conditions might have been ...
— Steve and the Steam Engine • Sara Ware Bassett

... puffed up to the booms, escorting the pile driver. The latter towed a little raft of long sharpened piles, which it at once began to drive in such positions as would most effectually strengthen the booms. In the meantime the thunder-heads had slyly climbed the heavens, so that a sudden deluge of rain surprised the workmen. For an hour it ...
— The Blazed Trail • Stewart Edward White



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