pile driver

See also: piledriver

English

Noun

pile driver (plural pile drivers)

A machine for forcing a pile, a long beam, into the ground as part of the construction of a foundation; usually by raising a weight and then dropping it on the beam.
A person who hits or attacks forcefully or powerfully.
She sure is a pile driver

Derived terms

piledriver (wrestling move)

Translations

machine for forcing a pile into the ground

Afrikaans: heimasjien
Chinese:
Cantonese: 打樁機
Czech: beranidlo n
Danish: rambuk
Dutch: heistelling f
Finnish: paalujuntta, juntta (fi)
French: sonnette (fr) f
German: Ramme (de) f
Hungarian: cölöpverőkos, cölöpverőgép
Italian: battipalo (it) m, berta (it) f
Japanese: 杭打ち機

Norwegian: påledriver
Nynorsk: påledrivar
Polish: kafar (pl) m
Portuguese: bate-estacas m
Romanian: sonetă (ro) f
Russian: копёр (ru) m (kopjór)
Spanish: martinete m
Swedish: pålkran c
Tagalog: martinete
Turkish: kazık çakıcı
Ukrainian: копер m (koper)

Adjective

pile driver (not comparable)

forceful
The champ ended the boxing match with a pile driver blow to his opponent’s jaw.

Translations

forceful

Dutch: keihard (nl), krachtig (nl)

Finnish: junttamainen (fi)

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