palification

English

Etymology

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

Noun

palification (uncountable)

1. The act or practice of driving piles or posts into the ground to make it firm.
   • 1624, Henry Wotton, The Elements of Architecture, […], London: […] Iohn Bill, →OCLC:

     Among which notes I haue sayd nothing of Palification, or Pyling of the Groundplot

   • 1928, Laura Maria Roberts Ragg, Crises in Venetian history:

     After experiment and discussion, larch was chosen as the wood for palification […]

References

• “palification”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.