Definition of "funeral pyre" []

• Wood heaped for burning a dead body as a funeral rite (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Orem burns on a torn mattress inside a white padded room, a funeral pyre for a plushie orca and a red-haired princess in a Winnie the Pooh sweater."
• "So the king at last agreed and ordered his friend Ptolemy to construct a massive funeral pyre for Calanus."
• "Servetus himself preferred to be tried in Geneva, since he could see only a burning funeral pyre for himself in Vienne."