"stacks on the mill" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: en-au-stacks on the mill.ogg [Australia]
Etymology: From the cry of each boy entering the dogpile, sometimes expanded to stack on the mill, more on still, apparently a variant of the earlier British games more sacks to the mill and stack-upon-the-kill. Etymology templates: {{l|en|more sacks to the mill}} more sacks to the mill, {{l|en|stack-upon-the-kill}} stack-upon-the-kill Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} stacks on the mill (uncountable)
  1. (Australia, games) A children's dogpile game. Tags: Australia, uncountable Categories (topical): Games
    Sense id: en-stacks_on_the_mill-en-noun-QA-hTpHu Categories (other): Australian English Topics: games
  2. (Australia) Synonym of dogpile, especially in Australian football. Tags: Australia, uncountable Categories (topical): Australian rules football Synonyms: dogpile [synonym, synonym-of], stacks on
    Sense id: en-stacks_on_the_mill-en-noun-KrbgBtqz Disambiguation of Australian rules football: 23 77 Categories (other): Australian English, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 29 71 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 36 64 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 33 67

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