Meaning

present participle and gerund of piledrive.

Definitions by Sense

1. present participle and gerund of piledrive
2. The action of driving piles into the ground with a piledriver.
3. Forceful, walloping, hard-hitting

Example Sentences

Here the essential elements of the piledriving machine are present: a pair of leads, a ram moving between them

So I switched into doggie style, which gives me my piledriving ability, but after a while my knee began to hurt ... I can pile-drive forever, and if I don't go off, what the hell do I care?

The Nazareth specialty seems to be pile-driving cover versions of subdued folkie fare like Tim Rose's "Morning Dew," Joni Mitchell's "This Flight Tonight," Bob Dylan's "The Ballad Of Hollis Brown" (which they worked into a nine-minute metallic frenzy), and, of course, "Love Hurts."

The remainder of the set wasn't in cruise control either. "Julius" was infectuous, filled to the brim with kinetic energy, and "The Horse/Silent In The Morning" not only contained an inflective tone, but was just the right thing to catch my breath. I'm glad I did, as the quartet followed with a piledriving "Reba" whose big jam contained a wealth of interplay and multi-colored passages.

Screaming slide guitar, great songs and tunes, a piledriving rhythm section, superb melodeon and violin.

Word Forms

• more piledriving
• most piledriving

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When Should You Use Pile driving?

Use pile driving when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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