woodpile

B2 Topic:House & Home

Also spelled wood-pile

US /ˈwʊdˌpaɪl/ UK /ˈwʊdˌpaɪl/
noun Freq #68601

Meanings

  1. 1
    noun

    a stack of cut wood, especially wood kept for fuel

    The family covered the woodpile before the winter rain began.

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Synonyms
1 noun · a stack of cut wood,... wood stacklog pilefuelwood stack
Word family
Related forms firewoodlogstack

Etymology

A compound of wood + pile, attested from the sixteenth century. It originally and still most often denotes wood stacked for drying or burning.

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