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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
woodpile
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A sheet of plastic covered the woodpile.
▪ A trail of mouse tracks leads from one woodpile to the next by the cabin.
▪ Finally, the bird, while searching for the mouse, accidentally knocked over the woodpile, which caught fire.
▪ He braked and grabbed up the shotgun as he laid the bike over, sliding into the shelter of the woodpile.
▪ If the forester finds green wood in your woodpile, you're in serious trouble.
▪ In the meantime, the woodpile had, like the tiny forest pool, temporarily detained a forest sojourner.
▪ One evening Kalchu went to the woodpile to choose which one it would be.
▪ The water from the creek reached the woodpile at the side of the house.
Wiktionary
woodpile

n. 1 A pile of cut wood to be used as fuel. 2 (context games English) An arrangement of dominoes.

WordNet
woodpile

n. a pile or stack of wood to be used for fuel

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Usage examples of "woodpile".

He passed a stable with a cattle pen beside it, jumped over a tiny stream, then went by a corncrib and a woodpile.

Crossing the clearing to the sugarhouse, he went straight to the woodpile inside.

Soldiers under the command of the boyar held back the stunned crowd and clergy in the square, while the rest of the men hurried to shift the woodpiles and start the blaze that would consume the cathedral from the outside.

Standing, the teenager grabbed a longblaster from the top of a woodpile and worked the bolt, chambering a round.

When I came in sight of the log store and the woodpile where the steamboats lands I worked along under the trees and brush till I got to a good place, and then I clumb up into the forks of a cottonwood that was out of reach, and watched.

Bud could tie the baby in the chair, give him a tin cup and a spoon and a bacon rind, and go out to the woodpile feeling reasonably certain that the house would not be set afire during his absence.

He picked a couple of big logs off the woodpile in the corner and laid them on the small stone hearth.

And, mind you, unless there's a nigger in the woodpile somewhere, the woman the bishop is inquiring about on the manslaughter business is the mother of the Brownley girl.

And, take it in the autumn, what can be pleasanter than to spend a whole day on the sunny side of a barn or a woodpile, chatting with somebody as old as one's self.

Under a shed roof against the palisade was a woodpile and next to the woodpile stood an old tree stump with an axe in it.

Recognition of the wild carrot plant dawned on her, and noticing a fractured branch with a pointed end in the woodpile, she used it as a digging stick to uncover the root a few inches below the surface.

Blackgult sat muttering on the ground beside a small, still form lying on a heap of wood shavings that stretched to several woodpiles beyond.

The old mining town had been turned into a scrapheap of abandoned vehicles, half-built houses, woodpiles, junk heaps, and geodesic outhouses.