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Definition of Sheath pile
1. Noun. A pile in a row of piles driven side by side to retain earth or prevent seepage.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sheath Pile
Literary usage of Sheath pile
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"sheath pile. Same as sheet pile ; a corruption, possibly in confusion with
sheathing, which such piling resembles. ..."
2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Superior Court of the City of by New York (City) Superior Court, Joseph S. Bosworth, Benjamin Vaughan Abbott, Austin Abbott (1865)
"... and the architect; the first claimed a delay of five or six weeks by a refusal
or neglect of the defendant to sheath-pile an adjacent lot, which, ..."
3. Foundations and Foundation Walls,: For All Classes of Buildings, Pile by George T. Powell, Frederick Baumann (1888)
"Excavate or make a cutting into the soft bottom and sheath pile with boards braced
on both sides and as the excavation proceeds, sink the sheath piles in ..."
4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Superior Court of the City of by John Duer (1858)
"... to sheath-piling, and in the refusal to charge that the plaintiff was not
bound to sheath-pile and support the premises and soil of the plaintiff. ..."
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