palification

The act or practice of driving piles or posts into the ground to make it firm.

Noun

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

Origin

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