Definition of stack

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Stack (a.) Any single insulated and prominent structure, or upright pipe, which affords a conduit for smoke; as, the brick smokestack of a factory; the smokestack of a steam vessel..

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Stack :: Stack (a.) A pile of poles or wood, indefinite in quantity..
Breeching :: Breeching (n.) The sheet iron casing at the end of boilers to convey the smoke from the flues to the smokestack.
Smokestack :: Smokestack (n.) A chimney; esp., a pipe serving as a chimney, as the pipe which carries off the smoke of a locomotive, the funnel of a steam vessel, etc..
Thatch :: Thatch (n.) To cover with, or with a roof of, straw, reeds, or some similar substance; as, to thatch a roof, a stable, or a stack of grain..
Stacked :: Stack (a.) A data structure within random-access memory used to simulate a hardware stack; as, a push-down stack..
Stacking :: Stack-guard (n.) A covering or protection, as a canvas, for a stack..
Stacking :: Stacked (imp. & p. p.) of Stac.
Stacket :: Stackage (n.) A tax on things stacked.
Rick :: Rick (n.) A stack or pile, as of grain, straw, or hay, in the open air, usually protected from wet with thatching..
Unstack :: Unstack (v. t.) To remove, or take away, from a stack; to remove, as something constituting a stack..
Cowl :: Cowl (n.) A wire cap for the smokestack of a locomotive.
Haggard :: Haggard (n.) A stackyard.
Capsheaf :: Capsheaf (n.) The top sheaf of a stack of grain: (fig.) the crowning or finishing part of a thing.
Stack-guard :: Stacket (n.) A stockade.
Stackage :: Stack (n.) To lay in a conical or other pile; to make into a large pile; as, to stack hay, cornstalks, or grain; to stack or place wood..
Stack :: Stack (a.) A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, usually of a nearly conical form, but sometimes rectangular or oblong, contracted at the top to a point or ridge, and sometimes covered with thatch..
Sweat :: Sweat (v. i.) Moisture issuing from any substance; as, the sweat of hay or grain in a mow or stack..
Stack :: Stack (a.) A section of memory in a computer used for temporary storage of data, in which the last datum stored is the first retrieved..
Stack :: Stack (a.) A pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet.
Uptake :: Uptake (n.) The pipe leading upward from the smoke box of a steam boiler to the chimney, or smokestack; a flue leading upward..
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