Pilement

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An accumulation; a heap. obsolete

    "What! had he nought whereby he might be known, / But costly pilements of some curious stone?"

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"What! had he nought whereby he might be known, / But costly pilements of some curious stone?"

Etymology

From pile + -ment.

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