woodpile
Americannoun
noun
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a pile or heap of firewood
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offensive See nigger
Etymology
Origin of woodpile
Example Sentences
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I was out at the woodpile, splitting kindling, when he came sailing out of the henhouse.
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What was a spinning wheel doing in the woodpile?
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Poor Jeb was hunkered down under a piece of canvas that covered the woodpile when Sal and I finally came outside.
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The follow-up continues this kookiness with a madhouse spoof of Hallmark holiday saccharine in which a woodpile becomes a homicidal monster.
From Salon
He strode across the clearing to the woodpile where the children were stacking the kindling and asked, “What say you, pups? Any scent of Bertha?”
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