Dwelling built on piles in or near a lake; specifically in prehistoric villages.
1Small terra-cotta figures, found in the Laybach pile dwellings.
2Small terra-cotta figures, from the Laybach pile dwellings.
3We do not meet in the pile dwellings with the common mouse, the rat, or the cat, and the horse is very rare.
4We meet with pile dwellings in our own day in the Celebes, in New Guinea, in Java, at Mindanao, and in the Caroline Islands.
5On the one side were gardens and the low rambling buildings of the convent, and on the other were huddled high- piled dwellings of poverty.
Translations for pile dwelling