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death pile en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. 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:
  2. A pile of corpses.
  3. A funeral pyre.
  4. 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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