Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A pile of wood, especially when used for fuel.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A stack or pile of wood, especially of wood for fuel.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
pile ofcut wood to be used asfuel .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a pile or stack of wood to be used for fuel
Etymologies
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Examples
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I walked in; and there in a corner on a woodpile was a real nice pair of pants, and a collar and cravat, and a coat and a tin lunch-bucket, which had been eaten -- the lunch had.
Mary Cary "Frequently Martha" Kate Langley Bosher 1898
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The brown box sandwiched between the green-and-white EKO boiler and the woodpile is a coal burner which must have supplemented wood heat at one point.
Bob Lewis's blog 2009
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The brown box sandwiched between the green-and-white EKO boiler and the woodpile is a coal burner which must have supplemented wood heat at one point.
Bob Lewis's blog 2009
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The brown box sandwiched between the green-and-white EKO boiler and the woodpile is a coal burner which must have supplemented wood heat at one point.
Bob Lewis's blog 2009
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Suggest that anyone at all should be looked for in the "woodpile"?
Archive 2009-05-01 Tenured Radical 2009
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Suggest that anyone at all should be looked for in the "woodpile"?
"Clarence Walker Can't Say Those Things, Can He?" A Review of Mongrel Nation: The America Begotten by Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings Tenured Radical 2009
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Lon McFane leaped from the woodpile, countering him in midair.
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Watery veins stood out and his forehead looked like a stolen woodpile.
Albino Meg Pokrass 2011
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I now have perches that I salvaged from the woodpile in my back yard.
Archive 2009-04-01 Sarah Lenz 2009
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Pierre pointed to the scattered chips by the woodpile.
treeseed commented on the word woodpile
Out behind the woodpile or in some cases the wood shed is where your pa takes you to get a lickin', sometimes with a hick'ry switch. It is also the subject of a wonderful poem called The Wood-pile by Robert Frost.
February 6, 2008