stack
A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, larger at the bottom than the top, sometimes covered with thatch.
Other meanings
A pile of similar objects, each directly on top of the last.
A pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet. (~3 m³)
Related words
- bookstack
- doublestack
- downstack
- drystack
- haystack
- interstack
- mack
- ministack
- misstack
- multistack
- peatstack
- piezostack
Word history
From Old Norse "stakkr" (a barn; haystack; heap; pile).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “stack” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.