woodpile

[ wood-pahyl ]

noun

1. a pile or stack of firewood.

woodpile

/ ˈwʊdˌpaɪl /

noun

1. a pile or heap of firewood
2. See nigger
   nigger in the woodpile offensive.
   nigger in the woodpile See nigger

Word History and Origins

Origin of woodpile¹

First recorded in 1545–55; wood ¹ + pile ¹

Example Sentences

An easy-push spark ignition gets the party started without having to know your way around a woodpile.

From The Daily Beast

Assembling a decent woodpile, however, is always an end in itself.

From Outside Online

There’s a section where Mytting claims that, in 19th-century Maine, young women would use the physical characteristics of woodpiles to assess a man’s viability as a potential husband.

From Outside Online

I wanted an axe, but there wasn't any, only the one out at the woodpile, and I knowed why I was going to leave that.

From Project Gutenberg

Every time one of them showed himself on the river side of the woodpile he got shot at.

From Project Gutenberg

Operations at the woodpile suddenly ceased and Young Matt was first at the barn-yard gate.

From Project Gutenberg

He's eaten so much of our woodpile, that he will be but a drowsy sentinel, I'm afraid.

From Project Gutenberg

His tone was pettish and he stooped down and began to toss splinters and broken boards upon the woodpile.

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