Piledriving

adj, noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    The action of driving piles into the ground with a piledriver. uncountable
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of piledrive form-of, gerund, participle, present

    "Here the essential elements of the piledriving machine are present: a pair of leads, a ram moving between them"

Adjective
  1. 1
    Forceful, walloping, hard-hitting

    "The Nazareth specialty seems to be pile-driving cover versions of subdued folkie fare like Tim Rose's "Morning Dew," Joni Mitchell's "This Flight Tonight," Bob Dylan's "The Ballad Of Hollis Brown" (which they worked into a nine-minute metallic frenzy), and, of course, "Love Hurts.""

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