- Funeral fire - Funeral pile - Wood pile used for cremating - A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which the dead are
burned; hence, any pile to be burnt.
- A heap - Carpet surface - Heap - lots of money - Stack - A hair; hence, the fiber of wool, cotton, and the like; also,
the nap when thick or heavy, as of carpeting and velvet. - A covering of hair or fur.
- A Hindoo widow who immolates herself, or is immolated, on
the funeral pile of her husband; -- so called because this act of
self-immolation is regarded as envincing excellence of wifely
character. - The act of burning a widow on the funeral pile of her
husband.