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STACK, n.
STACK, v.t.
A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the
like, usually of a nearly conical form, but sometimes rectangular or
oblong, contracted at the top to a point or ridge, and sometimes
covered with thatch.
But corn was housed, and beans were in the stack. Cowper. A pile of poles or wood, indefinite in
quantity.
Against every pillar was a stack of billets above a man's height. Bacon. A pile of wood containing 108 cubic
feet.
[Eng.] A number
of flues embodied in one structure, rising above the roof.
Hence:
To lay in a conical or other
pile] to make into a large pile; as, to stack hay, cornstalks,
or grain; to stack or place wood.
To stack arms (Mil.), to set up a number of muskets or rifles together, with the bayonets crossing one another, and forming a sort of conical pile. | ||||||||