Piledrivers drive heavy beams, or pilings, into the earth as a support for a structure. |
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They are cavity nesters that historically nested in tree cavities, old woodpecker holes, rotted pilings, and other natural cavities. |
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The house was a relic of Florida construction from the 1920s, a small wood-frame building raised on short concrete pilings. |
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Instead of being built on land, this shrine was constructed on pilings in a bay. |
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Where the Mississippi is 40 feet deep, the bridge's pilings go into bedrock 140 feet beneath the water's surface. |
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They offered whale-watching cruises and restored the old buildings that perched on pilings along the rim of the harbour. |
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These fish prefer shallow water and are commonly found in bays around eelgrass, oil platforms, pilings of wharfs and piers, and in back waters. |
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They particularly like buoys, pilings, wrecks, anchored boats, flotsam, etc., and will sometimes congregate around these objects. |
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These may be expected in rocky areas or among pilings and in other habitats not well sampled by traditional methods such as seining or trawling. |
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Development in rural areas means concrete houses built on pilings to allow a breezeway and carport underneath. |
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Located on a cordgrass marsh, the house rests on random pilings that blend in with the pine grove. |
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The sounds of the waves lapping against the pilings would quickly lull Lily to dreamland, especially since she hadn't slept well the night before. |
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The fishing piers create viable habitats for creatures such as oysters, mussels and sponges which are easily scraped from the sides of the pilings. |
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His dramatic compositions of bridge pilings, freeway foundations and steel frameworks are as calmly sculpturesque as a Greek Kouri yet still create a sense of unease. |
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Zander tend to spawn on submerged tree stumps, branches and reeds, although it is suspected that they can also spawn on plants and even canal pilings. |
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Often they will be seen picking pieces of filamentous algae from pilings. |
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Stiltsville is a collection of buildings on pilings on several sand flats at the northern end of the Safety Valve. |
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In the United States, pilings are mainly cut from southern yellow pines and Douglas firs. |
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Wooden bridges were constructed on pilings sunk into the river, or on stone piers. |
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One of the earliest known fords was the crossing at Littleborough, constructed by the Romans it was paved with flagstones, and supported by substantial timber pilings. |
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