Word Meanings - STACK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. 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

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1. 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. 2. A pile of poles or wood, indefinite in quantity. Against every pillar was a stack of billets above a man's height. Bacon. 3. A pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet. A number of flues embodied in one structure, rising above the roof. Hence: Any single insulated and prominent structure, or upright pipe, which affords a conduit for smoke; as, the brick smokestack of a factory; the smokestack of a steam vessel. A section of memory in a computer used for temporary storage of data, in which the last datum stored is the first retrieved. A data structure within random-access memory used to simulate a hardware stack, as, a push-down stack. Stack of arms , a number of muskets or rifles set up together, with the bayonets crossing one another, forming a sort of conical self-supporting pile.

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  A half-castrated male animal. (more info) castrated, a sheep having only one testicle; cf. Prov. G. rigel, rig,
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  Having tubercles or grainlike processes, as the petals or sepals of some flowers. (more info) 1. Having a grain; divided into small particles or grains; showing the grain; hence, rough. 2. Dyed in grain; ingrained. Persons lightly dipped,
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• STRAW-CUTTER
  An instrument to cut straw for fodder.
• COVERLET
  The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser.
• CONTRACTIBLE
  Capable of contraction. Small air bladders distable and contractible. Arbuthnot.
• SOMETIMES
  1. Formerly; sometime. That fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march. Shak. 2. At times; at intervals; now and then;occasionally. It is good that we sometimes be contradicted. Jer. Taylor. Sometimes . . .
• OBLONGLY
  In an oblong form.
• POINT SWITCH
  A switch made up of a rail from each track, both rails being tapered far back and connected to throw alongside the through rail of either track.
• HOUSEWIFE
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• COVERCLE
  A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
• POINTLESSLY
  Without point.
• POINT-DEVICE; POINT-DEVISE
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• HOUSLING
  Sacramental; as, housling fire. Spenser.
• HOUSEWARMING
  A feast or merry-making made by or for a family or business firm on taking possession of a new house or premises. Johnson.
• RECTANGULARITY
  The quality or condition of being rectangular, or right-angled.
• HOUSING
  A frame or support for holding something in place, as journal boxes, etc. That portion of a mast or bowsprit which is beneath the deck or within the vessel. A covering or protection, as an awning over the deck of a ship when laid up. A houseline.
• POINTAL
  The pistil of a plant. 2. A kind of pencil or style used with the tablets of the Middle Ages. "A pair of tablets . . . and a pointel." Chaucer.
• POINTED
  1. Sharp; having a sharp point; as, a pointed rock. 2. Characterized by sharpness, directness, or pithiness of expression; terse; epigrammatic; especially, directed to a particular person or thing. His moral pleases, not his pointed wit. Pope.
• CONICALITY
  Conicalness.
• DESMOGNATHOUS
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• JACKSTRAW
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• LACONIC; LACONICAL
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  A storehouse for wares, or goods. Addison.
• CATARRHOUS
  Catarrhal.
• POSTHOUSE
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  To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
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  Having the figure of, or resemblance to, a man; as, an anthromorphous plant. "Anthromorphous apes." Darwin.
• WATCHHOUSE
  1. A house in which a watch or guard is placed. 2. A place where persons under temporary arrest by the police of a city are kept; a police station; a lockup.
• SUBCONTRACTOR
  One who takes a portion of a contract, as for work, from the principal contractor.