pile driver

See also: piledriver

English

Noun

pile driver (plural pile drivers)

1. 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.
2. A person who hits or attacks forcefully or powerfully.

   She sure is a pile driver

Synonyms

• monkey hammer (the machine)

Derived terms

• piledriver (wrestling move)

Translations

machine for forcing a pile into the ground

• Afrikaans: heimasjien
• Arabic: مِدَقّ m (midaqq), مَاكِنَة دَقّ الرَكَائِز f (mākina(t) daqq ar-rakāʔiz)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 打樁機／打桩机 (zh) (dǎzhuāngjī)

• Czech: beranidlo n
• Danish: rambuk
• Dutch: heistelling (nl) 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
• Kazakh: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: fistūca f
• 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 (sv) c
• Tagalog: martinete
• Turkish: kazık çakıcı
• Ukrainian: копер m (koper)

Adjective

pile driver (not comparable)

1. 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)