stacks

Noun

stack (plural stacks)

1. A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, larger at the bottom than the top, sometimes covered with thatch.
   • But corn was housed, and beans were in the stack.c. 1790, William Cowper, The Needless Alarm
2. A pile of similar objects, each directly on top of the last.
   • Please bring me a chair from that stack in the corner.
3. (UK) A pile of poles or wood, indefinite in quantity.
   • There was againſt euery Pillar, a Stacke of Billets, aboue a Mans Height;1631, Francis [Bacon], “III. Century. [Experiments in Consort Touching the Reflexion, of Sounds.]”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William...
4. A pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet. (~3 m³)
5. An extensive collection
   • She performed appallingly on standard neurological tests, which are, as Sacks perceptively notes, specifically designed to deconstruct the whole person into a stack of 'abilities'.1997, Guy Claxton, Hare brain, tortoise mind: why intelligence increases when you think less
6. A smokestack.
   • With just the turn of a shoulder she indicated the water front, where, at the end of the dock on which they stood, lay the good ship, Mount Vernon, river packet, the black smoke already pouring from her stacks.1910, Emerson Hough, “A Lady in Company”, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC

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