Summer says "Nous également don’t avons much de temps avec these lampes-torches. Les piles will be dead in quelques minutes."What does piles mean?

“Piles” means “batteries” in French. The sentence says the piles will be dead in a few minutes, which makes sense for batteries running out of power; it does not refer to bulbs, bats, or bugs.

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