woodpile

[woo d-pahyl]

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noun

a pile or stack of firewood.

Origin of woodpile

First recorded in 1545–55; wood¹ + pile¹

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Related Words for woodpile

kindling, woodpile

Examples from the Web for woodpile

Historical Examples of woodpile

He's eaten so much of our woodpile, that he will be but a drowsy sentinel, I'm afraid.
Left on Labrador
Charles Asbury Stephens
We'll appoint Hen Dutcher a committee of one on the woodpile.
The Grammar School Boys Snowbound
H. Irving Hancock
When they left the woodpile Master Meadow Mouse left it too.
The Tale of Master Meadow Mouse
Arthur Scott Bailey
He was building himself a new home in Farmer Green's woodpile.
The Tale of Master Meadow Mouse
Arthur Scott Bailey
How beautiful it must have looked when such a woodpile was blazing on the water in the dark night!
Foma Gordyeff
Maxim Gorky

British Dictionary definitions for woodpile

woodpile

noun

a pile or heap of firewood
nigger in the woodpile See nigger (def. 3) offensive

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