pointbearing pile

point-bear·ing pile

[point-bair-ing]
noun Engineering, Building Trades.
a pile depending on the soil or rock beneath its foot for support.
Compare friction pile.
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Pointbearing pile is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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