sheet pile
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.95 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A corrugated steel pile, which is vertically driven into the ground to form a wall of sheet piling.
Example Sentences
- "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."