palification

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English

Etymology

From Latin palus (a stake) + -ficare (to make, in comparative). Compare French palification. See -fy.

Noun

palification (uncountable)

  1. The act or practice of driving piles or posts into the ground to make it firm.
    • 1624, Henry Wotton, The Elements of Architecture, , London: Iohn Bill, →OCLC:
      Among which notes I haue sayd nothing of Palification, or Pyling of the Groundplot
    • 1928, Laura Maria Roberts Ragg, Crises in Venetian history:
      After experiment and discussion, larch was chosen as the wood for palification []

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