The Collaborative International Dictionary
Funeral \Fu"ner*al\, a. [LL. funeralis. See Funeral, n.]
Pertaining to a funeral; used at the interment of the dead;
as, funeral rites, honors, or ceremonies.
--Shak.
Funeral pile or Funeral pyre, a structure of combustible
material, upon which a dead body is placed to be reduced
to ashes, as part of a funeral rite; a pyre. --
Fu"ner*al*ly, adv. [Obs.]
--Sir T. Browne.
WordNet
n. wood heaped for burning a dead body as a funeral rite [syn: pyre]
Wikipedia
"Funeral Pyre" is The Jam's thirteenth single released on 6 June 1981. Backed by the B-side "Disguises", a cover of a Who track, it reached No. 4 in the UK Singles Chart.
Pyre is the only single co-written by the band, and only the second song which has writing credits for all three members, the other being "Music for the Last Couple" which features on the Sound Affects album.
The song begins as a studio jam between drummer Rick Buckler and bassist Bruce Foxton, with Paul Weller's contribution coming later.
The song does not appear on any of the band's studio albums. In the US, it appeared on the five-track EP The Jam (Polydor PX-1-503), which peaked at No. 176 on the Billboard 200 album chart.
Usage examples of "funeral pyre".
If we dont obey him, her funeral pyre wont be the only thing those blasted dragons set ablaze!
Let the cabal build its funeral pyre in ignorance two or three more days.
And by the intentness of Fumita's gaze, he had not come just to honor the funeral pyre of a departed brother.
Just tell him: PyrE as in funeral pyre, and the amount of his fee.
On the twenty-first day, the Light of Heaven would beplaced atop his funeral pyre, and the chosen successoranointed by the priests of the Higher and Lesser Godswould ascend the golden throne as- the ashes cooled.
At once he saw where she was headed: to die remains of the funeral pyre that now lay as cold ashes and a few pieces of charred wood fifty paces out from the awning.
I stole fuel from the former funeral pyre and built a small cook fire from it.
As the world spun around me, I lay my body down on my funeral pyre, wrapped my arms around my friend and gave myself over to whatever awaited me beyond it.
Trembling, I went back to the funeral pyre and sank down onto it beside the Fool.
And so she sat in a place of honor beside the village chieftain-the man she'd saved from the sahuagin's net-listening as the village skald spun out the lineage and deeds of the men who had fallen during the sahuagin attack, and watching as sparks from the funeral pyre leaped high into the clear blue sky.
And killed dozens of other islanders, those now in flames atop the enormous funeral pyre.
They didn't understand, but they wept as the bodies of the entire Senate, the royal family, several Master Readers, and a number of soldiers went up in the white-hot flame of the funeral pyre.