pilement

English

Etymology

From pile +‎ -ment.

Noun

pilement (plural pilements)

  1. (obsolete) An accumulation; a heap.
    • 1597, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in Virgidemiarum, Sixe Bookes. First Three Bookes, of Tooth-lesse Satyrs. […], London: […] Thomas Creede, for Robert Dexter, →OCLC:
      What! had he nought whereby he might be known, / But costly pilements of some curious stone?

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