Definition of "woodpile" []

• A pile of wood, especially when used for fuel. (noun)

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• "I walked in; and there in a corner on a woodpile was a real nice pair of pants, and a collar and cravat, and a coat and a tin lunch-bucket, which had been eaten -- the lunch had."
• "The brown box sandwiched between the green-and-white EKO boiler and the woodpile is a coal burner which must have supplemented wood heat at one point."
• "Suggest that anyone at all should be looked for in the "woodpile"?"