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woodpile

[ wood-pahyl ]

noun

  1. a pile or stack of firewood.


woodpile

/ ˈwʊdˌpaɪl /

noun

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


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Word History and Origins

Origin of woodpile1

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

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Example Sentences

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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