A London encyclopaedia, or universal dictionary of science, art, literature and practical mechanics : comprising a popular view of the present state of knowledge : illustrated by numerous engravings, a general atlas, and appropriate diagrams (1829)
Curtis, Thomas, fl. 1820 · London : Thomas Tegg · leaf 400
^ERAL. Pile, in coinage, denotes a kind of puncheon,which, in the old way of coining with the ham-mer, contained the arms or other figure and in-scription to be struck on the coin. See Coinage.Accordingly we still call the arms side of a pieceof money the pile, and the head the cross; be-cause, in… … beareth azure a pile wavy issuing-out of thedexter corner. Sometimes inverted, as fig. 3, Pile Woums are a kind of worms found inthe piles of the sea dikes in Holland. They areof very various sizes ; for some of the youngones are not above an inch or two in length,while others have been found…
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