Stack

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Webster's Dictionary [1]

(1): (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.

(2): (a.) A number of flues embodied in one structure, rising above the roof. Hence:

(3): (a.) A pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet.

(4): (a.) A section of memory in a computer used for temporary storage of data, in which the last datum stored is the first retrieved.

(5): (a.) A pile of poles or wood, indefinite in quantity.

(6): (a.) A data structure within random-access memory used to simulate a hardware stack; as, a push-down stack.

(7): (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.

(8): (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.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [2]

(גָּדַישׁ, gadish, a heap [once a "tomb," Job 21:32], as of grain, Exodus 22:6; elsewhere" shock").

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [3]

stak  : Exodus 22:6 the King James Version, the Revised Version (British and American) "shocks" (of grain).

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