pile drivers
Heavy post hammers
Pile drivers are machines that drive piles—long heavy posts of wood, steel, or concrete—into the ground to create foundations for buildings, bridges, and other structures.
The term extends to people who operate these machines.
In wrestling, a piledriver is a move where one wrestler drives another headfirst into the mat.
The image of repeated forceful impact gives pile driver its figurative sense of something or someone relentlessly powerful: He threw pile drivers at his opponent's midsection.
- pilingsEmbedded structural columns
- hammeringStriking repeatedly with force
- brute forcePower over technique
- constructionProcess of building something
- impactForceful contact or consequence
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- loud noisesnoise, bang, crash, roar, boom
- heavy equipmentexcavator, excavators, bulldozers, loader, backhoe
- pile drivingsteam hammer, ram, anvil, leads, follower
- Ancient RomeRome, Julius Caesar, Caesar, gladiator, gladiators
- constructionconstruction site, building site, hammer, building, beam
- construction materialscement, lumber, brick, bricks, stone