Dwelling built on piles in or near a lake; specifically in prehistoric villages.
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Examples for "pile dwelling "
1 Small terra-cotta figures, found in the Laybach pile dwellings .
2 Small terra-cotta figures, from the Laybach pile dwellings .
3 We do not meet in the pile dwellings with the common mouse, the rat, or the cat, and the horse is very rare.
4 We meet with pile dwellings in our own day in the Celebes, in New Guinea, in Java, at Mindanao, and in the Caroline Islands.
5 On the one side were gardens and the low rambling buildings of the convent, and on the other were huddled high- piled dwellings of poverty.
1 Compare them with the following from the lake dwellings of Switzerland:
2 Hand-made pottery and rude tissues of flax are found in neolithic lake dwellings in Switzerland.
3 When the use of bronze was discovered the people still lived on in their lake dwellings .
4 These are none other than lake dwellings , similar to those first discovered in Switzerland about fifty years ago.
5 Switzerland is famous for its numerous clusters, or villages, of ancient lake dwellings , which were of considerable size.
6 The piles of the Swiss Lake dwellings , which are in a state of good preservation, are of prehistoric age.
7 It scraped the mud out of the interior of its lake dwellings , until it reached more or less dry earth.
8 Such a habitation, like the Swiss lake dwellings , afforded remarkable advantages of position in case of attack by a hostile tribe.
9 As regards the Lake dwellings , I have been able to submit to comparative examination nearly every single skull that has been found.
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