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death pile en · NOUN
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Unsold inventory.
We were frustrated and started drudging through our "death pile"
2023 March 31, “Dealing with “Death Piles” and Excess Inventory”, in ConsignCloud:Death piles are a necessity for those times when one is too busy to source
2019 May 30, almasty, “How to Eliminate Your Death Pile in 8 Easy Steps”, in Scavenger Life:
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A pile of corpses.
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A funeral pyre.
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A burial barrow or dolmen.
“Will you ask our oldest warriors to build me a barrow? Ask them to climb this headland and build me a death pile high on its top.”
1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 47:
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