"woodpile" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈwʊdpaɪl/ Forms: woodpiles [plural]
Etymology: From wood + pile. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|wood|pile}} wood + pile Head templates: {{en-noun}} woodpile (plural woodpiles)
  1. A pile of cut wood to be used as fuel. Translations (pile of cut wood): hejtlignejo (Esperanto), halkopino (Finnish), Biigi [Alemannic-German, feminine] (German), paila wahie (Hawaiian), кла́да (kláda) [feminine] (Macedonian), apaapa wahie (Maori), odun yığını (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-woodpile-en-noun-jfyJFj83 Disambiguation of 'pile of cut wood': 100 0
  2. (games) An arrangement of dominoes. Categories (topical): Games
    Sense id: en-woodpile-en-noun-swIfMaf3 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 34 66 Topics: games
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: Ethiopian in the woodpile, monkey in the woodpile, nigger in the woodpile

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for woodpile meaning in English (2.2kB)

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      "sense": "pile of cut wood",
      "word": "hejtlignejo"
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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "pile of cut wood",
      "word": "halkopino"
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