palification
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin palus (“a stake”) + -ficare (“to make”, in comparative). Compare French palification. See -fy.
Noun edit
palification (uncountable)
- 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 […]
References edit
- “palification”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.