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death piles

death piles is the plural of death pile.

Meaning of death pile

Noun

death pile (plural death piles)

  1. Unsold inventory.
    • Death piles are a necessity for those times when one is too busy to source2019 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

Questions about death piles

What is death piles the plural of?
Death piles is the plural of death pile.

Words near death piles in the dictionary

  1. death penalties
  2. death penalty
  3. death pennies
  4. death penny
  5. death pile
  6. death piles
  7. death pit
  8. death plane
  9. death play
  10. death pool
  11. death pools

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