stackn.
/stak/, U.S. /stæk/ 1.
a. A pile, heap or group of things, esp. such a pile or heap with its constituents arranged in an orderly fashion.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > mass formed by collection of particles > an accumulation > stack
stacka1300
a1300 Havelok 814 He..cast a panier on his bac, With fish giueled als a stac.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 471/2 Stacke, or heep, agger. Stacke, acervus.
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Aii/2 A Stacke, strues.
1581 W. Lambarde Eirenarcha i. vii. 38 How many..suffise to beare so manie, not loades, but Stacks of Statutes.
1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. Fv A stack of salt-fish.
1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 341 An huddled Stack of Buildings expatiated into a large Square in the middle of the Area.
1724 Ramsay's Tea-T. Misc. (ed. 9) I. 76 I ha' a good ha' house, a barn and a byer, A stack afore the door.
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. xiii. 132 Stacks of jointed meat are piled upon the ice-foot.
1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 131 Stacks, paper or printed work arranged in ‘stacks’.
b. figurative. A quantity, a ‘pile’, esp. (elliptical) a pile of money. Also in plural and as adverb. colloquial (originally U.S.).
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the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > (a) great quantity or amount
felec825
muchc1230
good wone1297
plentyc1300
bushelc1374
sight1390
mickle-whata1393
forcea1400
manynessa1400
multitudea1400
packc1400
a good dealc1430
greata1450
sackful1484
power1489
horseloadc1500
mile1508
lump1523
a deal?1532
peckc1535
heapa1547
mass1566
mass1569
gallon1575
armful1579
cart-load1587
mickle1599
bushelful1600–12
a load1609
wreck1612
parisha1616
herd1618
fair share1650
heapa1661
muchness1674
reams1681
hantle1693
mort1694
doll?1719
lift1755
acre1759
beaucoup1760
ton1770
boxload1795
boatload1807
lot1811
dollop1819
swag1819
faggald1824
screed1826
Niagara1828
wad1828
lashings1829
butt1831
slew1839
ocean1840
any amount (of)1848
rake1851
slather1857
horde1860
torrent1864
sheaf1865
oodlesa1867
dead load1869
scad1869
stack1870
jorum1872
a heap sight1874
firlot1883
oodlings1886
chunka1889
whips1888
God's quantity1895
streetful1901
bag1917
fid1920
fleetful1923
mob1927
bucketload1930
pisspot1944
shitload1954
megaton1957
mob-o-ton1975
gazillion1978
buttload1988
shit ton1991
society > trade and finance > money > sum of money > [noun] > large sum
pounda1225
ransom?a1300
fother14..
gob1542
mint1579
king's ransomc1590
abomination1604
coda1680
a pretty (also fine, fair, etc.) penny1710
plunk1767
big money1824
pot1856
big one?1863
a small fortune1874
four figures1893
poultice1902
parcel1903
bundle1905
pretty1909
real money1918
stack1919
packet1922
heavy sugar1926
motza1936
big bucks1941
bomb1958
wedge1977
megadollars1980
squillion1986
bank1995
1870 ‘M. Twain’ in Galaxy Sept. 425/2 Never saw ‘such a stack of them on one establishment’.
1892 ‘M. Twain’ Amer. Claimant xxiv. 236 Stacks of money had been placed in bank [sic] for him and Hawkins by the Yankee.
1894 A. Robertson Nuggets 64 His uncle had left him a stack of money.
1896 ‘Iota’ Quaker Grandmother 126 You're a stack of conventions.
1903 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang VI. ii. 340/2 Stacks of the ready = plenty of money.
1904 W. N. Harben Georgians xxiii. 222 My boy, I had stacks an' stacks of fun on that trip.
1919 P. G. Wodehouse My Man Jeeves 15 I'm a bit foggy as to what jute is, but..Mr. Worple had made quite an indecently large stack out of it.
1952 E. F. Davies Illyrian Venture vii. 127 Chesshire had stacks of letters from a girl friend and decided to read one a day for a month.
1968 B. Hines Kestrel for Knave (1972) 81 I'm not that bad, I'm no worse than stacks o' kids, but they just seem to get away with it.
1968 B. Hines Kestrel for Knave (1972) 83 It's stacks better than roamin' t'streets doin' nowt.
c. to swear on a stack of Bibles (see quot. 1909). U.S. colloquial.
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the mind > language > statement > assertion or affirmation > [verb (intransitive)] > swear or take an oath > take exaggerated or emphatic form of oath
to swear on a stack of Bibles1866
1866 M. Reid Headless Horseman lvii. 287 I'll sware it on the crass—or a whole stack av Bibles if yez say so.
1909 Dial. Notes 3 378 Swear on a stack of Bibles (a mile high),..an exaggerated or emphatic form of oath.
1926 M. J. Atkinson in J. F. Dobie Rainbow in Morning (1965) 82 I would not believe him if he swore to it on a stack of Bibles as high as his head.
1956 ‘B. Holiday’ & W. Dufty Lady sings Blues ii. 33 Mom..swore on a stack of Bibles I was eighteen.
d. A set of shelving on which books are arranged for storage, esp. in a library (also bookstack n. at book n. Compounds 3); hence, a part of a library designed for the storage of books, and to which access by readers may be restricted. Frequently attributive and in plural.
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society > communication > book > library or collection of books > library, place, or institution > [noun] > stall, stack, or shelf in library
classis1631
interclassis1678
class1686
stall1709
open shelf1821
stack1879
society > communication > book > library or collection of books > library, place, or institution > [adjective] > stack
stack1946
1879 C. A. Cutter in Library Jrnl. IV. 235 The new wing..consists of a perfectly uniform series of book stacks arranged like a gridiron.
1884 Harper's Mag. Nov. 828/1 The stack-rooms, in which the body of the collection..is packed.
1900 Library Jrnl. Nov. 679/2 Electric signals are also a part of the apparatus, and convenient elevators for passengers and freight are provided in the book-stacks.
1910 A. E. Bostwick Amer. Public Libr. 284 The relation of reading room to stack must be such as to make these [carriers] easily operable.
1933 Times 9 Nov. 9/2 Before leaving the building they paused to visit one of the new two-tier book-stacks on the ground floor.
1946 Library Quarterly Apr. 128/2 It is a modern brick building, five stories high, and contains, in addition to the stack space, a small reading room.
1956 ‘C. Blackstock’ Dewey Death i. 5 There were some seven thousand books... Barbara spent most of her spare time in the history section, wandering from stack to stack.
1967 C. Potok Chosen ii. viii. 152 Its stacks were filled mostly with bound volumes of scholarly journals and pamphlets.
1980 Cosmopolitan (U.K. ed.) Dec. 221/1 I located a promising title for my Proust researches. ‘Not on the Open Shelves.’ I would have to order it to be fetched for me from the stacks of the library.
e. Aeronautics. A series of aeroplanes circling at different altitudes and awaiting landing instructions.
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society > travel > air or space travel > regulation and control of flying > [noun] > placing aircraft in landing sequence > aircraft waiting in landing sequence
stack-up1945
stack1947
traffic stack1947
1947 Britannica Bk. of Year 841/2 As the bottom plane lands, each member of the stack drops 1,000 ft. and a new plane can then be brought in on top.
1952 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 56 615/2 Once an aircraft was in a stack it was difficult to bring it forward.
1965 Observer 31 Oct. 1/1 He came in for a third attempt after circling for a further 40 minutes in the Watford ‘stack’.
1976 L. Deighton Twinkle, twinkle, Little Spy x. 94 We joined the stack..and circled to await landing permission.
f. In a computer or calculator, a set of registers or storage locations which store data in such a way that the most recently stored item is the first to be retrieved; also, a list of items so stored, a push-down list.
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society > computing and information technology > data > database > [noun] > storage
storage1909
stack1960
society > computing and information technology > hardware > [noun] > memory > position of > set of
block1948
page1948
bank1953
array1957
stack1960
vector1961
1960 E. W. Dijkstra in Numerische Math. II. 312 The basic concept of the method is the so-called stack. One uses a stack for storing a sequence of information units that increases and decreases at one end only.
1964 Ann. Rev. Automatic Programming 4 183 A stack is merely an area of storage with an associated administrative quantity, the ‘stack pointer’, which controls the addressing of the stack.
1973 C. W. Gear Introd. Computer Sci. viii. 359 We can choose a section of memory at execution time to store this stack.
1976 Sci. Amer. June 88/1 (advt.) HP's special logic system with four-register stack almost completely eliminates the need to re-enter data.
2. A pile of grain in the sheaf, of hay, straw, fodder, etc., gathered into a circular or rectangular form, and usually with a sloping thatched top to protect it from the weather.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > storage or preservation of crops > [noun] > stacking or ricking > stack or rick
moweOE
rickeOE
pease-ricka1325
stackc1330
tassc1330
rucka1382
hayrick14..
haystack14..
sedge reekc1440
hay-mow1483
hay-goaf1570
rack1574
hovel1591
scroo1604
mow-stack1611
sow1659
corn-rick1669
bean-rick1677
barley-mow1714
pea rick1766
rickle1768
bike1771
stacklet1796
bean-stack1828
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 14690 In eueses þey crepte, & in þe þakkes, & in hey & in corn stakkes.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 6760 If fire be kyndel[d] and ouertak Thoru feld, or corn, or mou, or stak.
c1400 Brut cxcii. 212 Þe Sccottes sette in fire iij stackes of hey.
1426 J. Lydgate tr. G. de Guileville Pilgrimage Life Man 17475 I resemble vn-to that hound Wych lyggeth in a stak off hay, Groynynge al the longe day.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 471/2 Stacke, arconius.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid ii. viii. 108 The corne graingis, and standand stakkis off hay.
1546–7 in J. W. Clay Testamenta Eboracensia (1902) VI. 254 The pese stacke that I have bought.
1608 A. Willet Hexapla in Exodum 495 The corne reaped and gathered into shockes or stackes.
1645 J. Milton L'Allegro in Poems 32 While the Cock..to the stack, or the Barn dore, Stoutly struts his Dames before.
1795 W. Cowper Needless Alarm 23 But corn was hous'd, and beans were in the stack.
1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 624 The stacks should not be thatched till they have had about a week or a fortnight to settle.
1867 J. Hatton Tallants xv The big yellow stacks peered out amongst the trees.
3. † b. A pyre or burial pile. Obsolete.
a. A pile of sticks, faggots, firewood, poles, etc.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > mass formed by collection of particles > an accumulation > stack > of sticks, poles, etc.
stack1390
1390 Earl Derby's Exped. (Camden) 66/9 Pro j stak focalis.
c1460 Brut ccli. 507 This same yere also, on Newyere day, at Baynard castell, fill down A stakk of wod sodenly at afternone.
?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xlii Whan thou shalt bringe them home to make a stacke of them [sc. faggots]: set the nethermast course vpon the endes.
1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 232 The Indians (I meane the Sect of their Wise Men) lay Themselves quietly upon a Stacke of Wood, and so Sacrifice themselves by Fire.
1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. lii. 427 A..Stack of Timber.
1711 MS. Sessions Roll Durham Oct. 1 Duas Strigas Ericarum anglice Stacks of Whinns.
1811 A. T. Thomson London Dispensatory ii. 293 The stacks are generally built on the slope of a hill, so that the tar is easily collected, and put into barrels.
1838 G. P. R. James Robber I. vi. 138 On the edge of the moor was a low shed and a stack of fern.
1854 E. Ronalds & T. Richardson Knapp's Chem. Technol. (ed. 2) I. 11 An ordinary stack or pile of American wood.
1886 Manch. Examiner 8 Jan. 6/2 The stacks of timber, which are in close proximity, being saved from destruction.
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the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > cremation > [noun] > pile or pyre
adeOE
fireeOE
baleOE
pile1531
stacka1547
funeral pile1555
roge1559
fire pile1577
pyre1638
funeral pyre1658
death pile1791
a1547 Earl of Surrey tr. Virgil Fourth Bk. Aeneas (1554) iv. sig. Divv She rusheth in: and clam vp as bestraught The buryal stacke.
c. A measure of volume for wood and coal, usually 4 cubic yards (108 cubic feet).
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the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > [noun] > cubic yard > four cubic yards
stack1651
1651 Publ. Gen. Acts 1326 Such..of the said Coals as have been, or usually are sold by the Stack, Ruck, Fathom, or other uncertain Denomination.
1674 T. Blount Glossographia (ed. 4) Stack of Wood, in Essex, is fourteen foot in length, three foot in heighth, and three in breadth.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Stack of Wood, (among Husband-men) a pile of Wood 3 Foot long, as many broad, and 12 Foot high.
1733 W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farming 92 Twenty one Stack of Fire-wood Billet, nine Stack of Roots.
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products 357/1 A stack of wood is 108 cubic feet.
4. Brickmaking. = clamp n.3 1.
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > disposition of stones or bricks > [noun] > specific pile of bricks
stack1815
1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 186 The stacks or clamps are built of the bricks themselves.
5.
a. A number of chimneys, flues, or pipes, standing together in one group.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > that which or one who heats > [noun] > a device for heating or warming > devices for heating buildings, rooms, etc. > chimney > group of chimneys
stack1667
chimney-stack1841
1667 S. Pepys Diary 29 Nov. (1974) VIII. 552 She..heard a noise in the great stack of chimneys that goes from Sir J. Mennes's through our house.
1748 J. Hervey Medit. among Tombs in Medit. & Contempl. (ed. 4) I. 28 A Stack of Chimneys may tumble into the Street, and crush the unwary Passenger.
1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 434 When walls contain a great number of flues, they are called stacks of chimnies.
1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist 197 It occupied a smaller space in the centre of the floor, with a stack of flues rising over it.
1882 Worcs. Exhib. Catal. iii. 5 One coil-end for stack of 2-in. pipes.
b. A chimney of a house, factory, etc.; the chimney or funnel of a locomotive or steamship; also, = stack-furnace n. at Compounds 2. Cf. stalk n.1
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > that which or one who heats > [noun] > a device for heating or warming > devices for heating buildings, rooms, etc. > chimney
tewelc1384
chimneyc1440
tun1463
lum1697
stack1825
smokestack1859
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 357 In smelting by the reverberatory-furnace..the flame passes over the hearth, and enters into an oblique chimney, which terminates in a perpendicular one, called a stack, of considerable height.
1908 E. Robins Come & find Me 294 The big yellow stack belched out clouds of smoke.
c. In figurative phrase to blow one's stack = to blow one's top at blow v.1 24i. slang (originally U.S.).
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the mind > emotion > anger > [verb (intransitive)] > become angry
wrethec900
wrothc975
abelghec1300
to move one's blood (also mood)c1330
to peck moodc1330
gremec1460
to take firea1513
fumec1522
sourdc1540
spitec1560
to set up the heckle1601
fire1604
exasperate1659
to fire up1779
to flash up1822
to get one's dander up1831
to fly (occasionally jump, etc.) off (at) the handle1832
to have (also get) one's monkey up1833
to cut up rough, rusty, savage1837
rile1837
to go off the handle1839
to flare up1840
to set one's back up1845
to run hot1855
to wax up1859
to get one's rag out1862
blow1871
to get (also have) the pricker1871
to turn up rough1872
to get the needle1874
to blaze up1878
to get wet1898
spunk1898
to see red1901
to go crook1911
to get ignorant1913
to hit the ceiling1914
to hit the roof1921
to blow one's top1928
to lose one's rag1928
to lose one's haira1930
to go up in smoke1933
hackle1935
to have, get a cob on1937
to pop (also blow) one's cork1938
to go hostile1941
to go sparec1942
to do one's bun1944
to lose one's wool1944
to blow one's stack1947
to go (also do) one's (also a) dingerc1950
rear1953
to get on ignorant1956
to go through the roof1958
to keep (also blow, lose) one's cool1964
to lose ita1969
to blow a gasket1975
to throw a wobbler1985
1947 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang Suppl. §48/1 Blow one's stack, to become angry or excited.
1952 R. P. Bissell Monongahela 189 When Andrew [Carnegie] received the minutes and read them he blew his stack a mile high.
1965 F. Knebel Night of Camp David xi. 173 O'Malley looked startled. ‘Well, he..he was goddam mad. Frankly, he blew his stack.’
1979 W. H. Canaway Solid Gold Buddha xxiv. 156 I ain't whingeing, honest... I'm sorry I blew me stack.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > milling or grinding > [noun] > corn-mill > set of mills
stack1772
1772 Jackson's Oxf. Jrnl. 24 Oct. To be let—A compleat Stack of Corn Mills.
7. [Compare Faroese stakkur ‘high solitary rock in the sea’.] A columnar mass of rock, detached by the agency of water and weather from the main part of a cliff, and rising precipitously out of the sea. Cf. sea-stack n. at sea n. Compounds 6a originally dialect.
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the world > the earth > land > land mass > reef > stack > [noun]
carrc950
stack1769
stag1776
stalk1806
sea-stack1899
1701 J. Brand Brief Descr. Orkney, Zetland viii. 109 At a little distance from Papa Stour, lyes a Rock encompassed with the Sea called Frau-a-Stack, which is a Danish word, and signifieth, our Ladys Rock.]
1769 T. Pennant Tour Scotl. (1771) 152 Great insulated columns, called here Stacks.
1822 S. Hibbert Descr. Shetland Islands 568 After many unsuccessful attempts to bring the boat close in to the stack the unfortunate wight was left to his fate.
1851 T. Sternberg Dial. & Folk-lore Northants. (at cited word) In Pembrokeshire the insular rocks of the coast are locally termed ‘stacks’.
1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 168 [Rocks] completely isolated in the form of ‘needles’, ‘stacks’, and ‘skerries’.
1889 Hardwicke's Sci.-gossip 25 205 On the coast [of Sutherland] the sea has deeply eroded and tunnelled into the land..leaving..numerous stacks, islets, and spiry rocks.
1944 A. Holmes Princ. Physical Geol. xiv. 287 Later the arch falls in, and the seaward portion of the headland then remains as an isolated stack.
1957 G. E. Hutchinson Treat. Limnol. I. ii. 173 Coastal islands formed by cutting behind promontories, so producing isolated stacks, occur along the margins of large lakes.
1975 G. Moffat Miss Pink iii. 43 It's the big stack off the north headland: a hundred and fifty feet high... A good Severe, we thought.
Compounds
General attributive. C1. Obvious combinations: simple attributive.
a.
stack-cloth n. (In sense 2.)
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1832 Boston Herald 31 July 1 Stack-Cloths of the same highly-approved-of description.
stack-cover n.
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1799 Hull Advertiser 12 Oct. 2/1 Mill sails, waggon, cart, and stack covers.
stack-fire n.
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1898 Westm. Gaz. 16 Sept. 7/3 Stack fires and the demolition of cottages owing to the thatch firing.
stack-ground n.
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1931 Amer. Speech 7 49 Sometimes it [sc. the timber] is loaded..and ‘lizzarded’ to the ‘stack ground’.
stack-pipe n. (In sense 8b(a).)
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1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. §854 To put 3 inches lead rain~water stack pipes, with cistern heads to bring the water to the ground in the angle of the north front.
1849 Ecclesiologist 9 356 The stack-pipes will communicate with these main drains.
stack-process n.
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1884 Chambers's Jrnl. 8 Mar. 158/2 The old ‘stack’ process of white-lead manufacture.
b. Objective.
stack-firer n.
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1831 Lincoln Herald 29 July 4/1 Serjeant Wilde has absolutely defended the magistracy against the bellowing of the stack-firers.
stack-firing n.
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1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 6 Sept. 6/2 A man..was charged yesterday at Arrington, Cambs, with stack firing.
c.
stack-wise adv. (In sense 2.)
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1881 R. Buchanan God & Man III. 41 This [turf] I arranged stack-wise.
d.
stack-shaped adj.
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1864 J. A. Grant Walk across Afr. 62 Grain is housed under the eaves of stack-shaped huts.
1921 Glasgow Herald 26 Mar. 7 About a dozen 18-pounder shell cases, some of which contained curious stack-shaped bombs.
C2. Special combinations:
stack-bar n. a hurdle for fencing a stack (sense 2) standing in an open field.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > storage or preservation of crops > [noun] > stacking or ricking > stack-bar
stack-bar1657
1657 in F. Collins Wills & Admin. Knaresborough Court Rolls (1905) II. 223 5 stackbarrs.
1788 W. Marshall Provincialisms E. Yorks. in Rural Econ. Yorks. II. 355 Stackbars, large hurdles with which hay stacks in the field are generally fenced.
stack-furnace n. a tall circular blast furnace for smelting.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > furnace or kiln > furnace > [noun] > types of furnace by shape
philosophers' tower1688
cupola-furnace1716
ring furnace1842
shaft-furnace1874
stack-furnace1877
1877 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 289 1 slag-furnace, and 2 stack-furnaces.
stack gas n. gas emitted by a chimney-stack.
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the world > matter > gas > [noun] > specific gases > gas emitted by a chimney
stack gas1945
1945 H. D. Smyth Gen. Acct. Devel. Atomic Energy Mil. Purposes viii. 91 It became essential to know whether the stack gases (at Clinton and at Hanford) would be likely to spread radioactive fission products in dangerous concentrations.
1973 H. Gruppe Truxton Cipher xiii. 135 The smell of stack gas lay heavy upon the destroyer's upperworks.
stack-guard n. (see quot. 1875).
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1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Stack-guard, a temporary roof capable of elevation, and designed to protect a stack or rick of hay or grain in process of formation.
stack-pole n. ? a pole round which sheaves are piled to form a stack.
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the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > harvesting equipment > [noun] > rick-stick
stack-pole1816
rick-stick1874
1816 U.S. Coast Survey, Deb. in Congress (1818) 2456 I began by erecting a signal..in form of a tripod, made of a ladder and two stack-poles.
1893 Opie Read Emmett Bonlore 343 He was almost as high as a stackpole, an' so slim.
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stack-room n. (see sense 1d above).
stack-stand n. (see quot. 1875).
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1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Stack-stand, a device for supporting a stack of hay or grain at a sufficient distance above the ground to preserve it dry beneath and prevent the ravages of vermin.
stack-wood n. a faggot, usually collective singular a load of firewood; also attributive.
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society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > wood as fuel > [noun] > a pile, stack, or bundle
faggotc1312
kida1350
faggald1488
bavin1528
woodpile1552
fire pile1577
brush-faggot1606
stalder1611
figate1645
kid-stack1653
stack-wood1664
brush1699
bavin-band1725
pimpa1731
bavin-stack1759
bundle-wood1879
wood-heap1943
1664 J. Evelyn Sylva 101 A round hole, which is to be formed in working up the stack-wood, for a tunnel.
1785 J. Phillips Treat. Inland Navigation 17 Stack-wood, for the London bakers.
stack-yard n. a rick-yard.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > storage or preservation of crops > [noun] > stacking or ricking > stack-yard
stack-garth1293
haggard1452
stack-yard1569
rickyard1586
mowhay1612
mow-barton1642
rick-barton1656
mow-yard1869
1569 Reg. Privy Council Scotl. II. 33 To teind, gadder, leid and place the saidis teind schaves in the stak yaird.
1788 Trans. Soc. Arts 6 82 Exposed to view in barns and stackyards.
1887 A. Jessopp Arcady 11 All that this good man could make out of his stackyard in the best years.
Draft additions 1993
A vertical arrangement of public-address or hi-fi equipment.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > audibility > sound magnification or reproduction > [noun] > public address system > vertical arrangement of equipment
stack1971
1971 Melody Maker 9 Oct. 30/6 Semi-pro bands cannot expect to be accepted immediately... If you have something to offer someone will eventually take notice. Then..is the time to buy your Les Paul and 200 watt stack.
1984 Sounds 29 Dec. 4/5 First prize of a Marshall 3210 compact stack.
1986 Video Today Apr. 4/1 (advt.) It'll fill any cassette deck's gap in a midi Hi-Fi stack.
Draft additions 1993
a vertical overhead exhaust-pipe on a diesel-powered truck or similar vehicle (slang, originally U.S.).
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > parts and equipment of motor vehicles > [noun] > exhaust-pipe
exhaust-pipe1889
exhaust stack1927
tail-pipe1956
stack1961
1961 Amer. Speech 36 273 Northwest Truck Drivers' Language... Broom stack; dirty stack, a stack that is flaming or smoking.
1971 M. Tak Truck Talk 154 Stack, a vertical exhaust pipe on a diesel rig.
1987 Truck & Driver July 27/1 Stacks carry the exhaust gases away from the driver so he will not be choked when operating the external controls of the crane.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
stackv.1
/stak/, U.S. /stæk/ 1.
a. transitive. To pile (corn, fodder, etc.) into a stack; to make a stack of, to pile (something) up in the form of a stack.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > gather together [verb (transitive)] > gather in one mass or form lumps > accumulate > stack
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foot1550
cord1762
bond1865
c1325 Gloss. W. de Bibbesw. in Wright Voc. 154 [Dehors la graunge vos blez tassez glossed,] stacke thi corn.
c1460 Promptorium Parvulorum (Winch.) 464 Stakkyn, arconiso.
1483 Cath. Angl. 358/2 To Sstakke, arconizare.
1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 55v Stack pease vppon houel, abrode in the yard.
1592 in J. Harland House & Farm Accts. Shuttleworths (1856) I. 74 Stackinge turffes towe dayes iijd.
1657 N. Billingsley Brachy-martyrologia ii. viii. 211 Being in Harvest stacking of his corn.
1797 J. Curr Coal Viewer 11 I have adopted this mode of conveying coals above the ground also for stacking them.
1801 Farmer's Mag. Jan. 99 I do not think it proceeds from the crop yielding beyond what it had the appearance of when stacked.
1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. §1584 The boards to be prepared and stacked (horsed) by the 1st of September.
1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede I. i. vi. 129 At the far end fleeces of wool stacked up.
1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. x. 165 The port which Tom employed the first hour after his return in stacking carefully away in his cellar.
1894 G. M. Fenn Real Gold 314 Something serious was evidently going on by the spot where the packages had been stacked.
b. Aeronautics. To order (aircraft waiting to land) at different flight levels and in landing sequence above an airport; to place (an aeroplane) in a waiting stack (frequently with up). Also intransitive (of aircraft), to form a stack.
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society > travel > air or space travel > regulation and control of flying > [verb (intransitive)] > form sequence waiting to land
stack1941
society > travel > air or space travel > regulation and control of flying > [verb (transitive)] > form sequence waiting to land
stack1941
1941 K. Henney Radio Engin. Handbk. (ed. 3) xvii. 616 The present practice of ‘stacking’ airplanes..limits the number of landings..to about 4 per hour.
1943 M. Feigen Pocket Aviation Quiz Bk. 55 Planes cruising above an airport at varying assigned altitudes in order not to collide while awaiting their turns to land are said to be: stacked up.
1949 Sun (Baltimore) 4 Nov. 2/6 Planes ‘stack up’ over the range station near Mount Vernon.
1965 P. Wylie They both were Naked i. i. 4 We'd spent that interval..‘stacked up’ and waiting for planes..to be called down for landings.
1975 D. Lodge Changing Places vi. 218 I hope to hell we aren't stacked for hours over Kennedy.
2.
a. absol. and intransitive. To put corn or hay into stacks; to make a stack or stacks.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > storage or preservation of crops > [verb (intransitive)] > stack or rick
stacka1722
hovel1742
a1722 J. Lauder Decisions (1759) I. 548 The Lords found little matter of riot in the master's hindering his tenant to stack in that barn-yard.
1801 Farmer's Mag. Nov. 479 Some loss has occurred, from stacking too hastily.
1883 M. P. Bale Saw-mills 237 If it [timber] is to be used for fencing posts and rails, &c., split at once and stack where there is a free circulation of air.
1894 H. Caine Manxman iii. v. 137 It was her father stacking in the haggard.
b. To pile up one's chips at poker. Now usually figurative, to present oneself, measure up; to arise, build up. colloquial (chiefly U.S.).
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the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > comparison > compare [verb (intransitive)] > admit of comparison
parec1450
comparea1500
march1567
to deserve to carry the buckler1642
nick1887
to side up with1895
stack1896
the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > visibility > be visible [verb (intransitive)] > appear or become visible > make an appearance > present oneself
stack1896
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > poker > [verb (transitive)] > actions or tactics
see1804
to make good1821
call1840
bluff1846
straddle1864
fill1865
to cash in1884
stack1896
slow-play1967
slow-roll1996
1896 G. Ade Artie ii. 10 He'd stack up, you know, an' feel in his pockets and then he'd say: ‘I'm forty-seven cents loser.’
1896 G. Ade Artie viii. 70 How does the old gentleman stack up?
1911 R. D. Saunders Col. Todhunter xiii. 198 Old Bill Strickland, of Nineveh, somehow don't seem to stack up the right way against the Honourable Stephen K. Vancey.
1921 R. D. Paine Comrades Rolling Ocean iv. 71 I wish this trouble hadn't stacked up between us.
1938 Sun (Baltimore) 6 Apr. 11/5 I think every one will agree my record stacks up favourably enough with that of any other pro. past or present.
1951 M. McLuhan Mech. Bride 48/1 See how you stack up with your fellow man on the following issues.
1965 P. G. Wodehouse Galahad at Blandings x. 169 I've never been a brainy sort of guy, and what I want is a wife with about the same amount of grey matter I have, and that's how Vee stacks up.
1977 R. E. Megill Introd. Risk Anal. xv. 170 Dougherty and Nozaki ranked knowing your competitors as of equal value to knowing how well your own estimate stacks up.
3. transitive. To make a pile of (weapons, etc.) by leaning one against another. (Cf. pile v.2 2c.)
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > gather together [verb (transitive)] > gather in one mass or form lumps > accumulate > stack > by leaning one against another
stack1841
1841 G. Catlin Lett. N. Amer. Indians I. xx. 144 The..leader of the party, with his arms stacked behind him.
1887 Times 9 Apr. 5/5 The men [military cyclists], having dismounted and stacked their machines.
4. to stack up: to pile materials on, to make up (a fire).
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > burn or consume by fire [verb (transitive)] > make a fire > add fuel to (a fire)
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timber1486
mend?a1505
stoke1735
to make up1781
bank1825
chunk1840
to stack up1892
1892 H. R. Haggard Nada the Lily ix. 67 We stacked up the fire.
5. To fill with stacks of.
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the mind > possession > supply > provide or supply (something) [verb (transitive)] > provide or supply (a person or thing) with anything > stock (a place, etc.) with something
fillOE
store1264
pitchc1300
stuffc1386
fretc1400
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engrange1480
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freightc1503
people1581
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bestore1661
to lay in1662
1652 E. Benlowes Theophila vi. xxvi. 84 Whose Hands did stack The studded Orbs with Stars.
1913 19th Cent. Jan. 67 Calcutta was stacked with the rupees of 1907 still unissued.
6.
a. To shuffle or arrange (playing-cards) dishonestly. In figurative phr. to stack the cards (etc.) against: to reduce (a person or thing's) chance of success. Cf. pack v.2 3, stock v.1 23b originally U.S.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > card-sharping or cheating > cheat someone at cards [verb (transitive)] > methods of cheating
pack1575
palm1671
spur1674
slip1807
stack1825
pass1859
stock1864
riffle1891
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > [verb (transitive)]
disvail14..
disavail1429
disadvantage?c1550
to weaken the hands of1560
disvantage1567
to take the wind out of the sails of1822
handicap1857
to stack the cards (etc.) against1941
disbenefit1978
1825 in M. Bayard Smith Forty Yrs. Washington Soc. (1906) 186 John Randolph observed after counting the ballots, ‘It was impossible to win the game, gentlemen, the cards were stacked.’
1896 J. F. B. Lillard Poker Stories 54 The stranger got skinned right and left. The cards were stacked and marked on the back, so that he didn't have any chance at all to win.
c1926 ‘Mixer’ Transport Workers' Song Bk. 31 He'll know this when I stack the cards.
1941 B. Schulberg What makes Sammy Run? v. 81 You read the papers, you know how the cards are stacked against this nut.
1977 New Yorker 24 Oct. 37/1 He..confirmed our worst fear: the deck is stacked... He picked up a cardboard box containing several packs of cards.
1978 ‘G. Vaughan’ Belgrade Drop x. 67 ‘Pin your ears back,’ Yardly murmured. ‘We've got a lot stacked against us.’
b. = pack v.2 4. Also figurative.
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the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > expression of choice by some approved method > give (a vote) [verb (transitive)] > pack a body of voters
pack1587
stack1948
1948 Durant (Okla.) Daily Democrat 2 July 1/5 His young polltaker detected no signs of ‘stacking’ the poll for any candidate.
1963 Wall St. Jrnl. 25 Jan. 16/3 The government is now stacked from top to bottom with men who reflect their President's prejudices.
1970 New Yorker 28 Nov. 104/2 Legally, marriage is still stacked in favor of the man.
1975 N.Y. Times 10 Apr. 29/1 Gov. George C. Wallace of Alabama charged today that..efforts were being made..to stack delegate-selection procedures against him.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
stackv.2
/stak/, U.S. /stæk/ Coal Mining.
transitive. See quot. 1883. (Chiefly with out.)
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society > occupation and work > industry > mining > mine [verb (transitive)] > other (coal-)mining procedures
underbeit1670
buck1683
bank1705
bunding1747
urge1758
slappet1811
tamp1819
jowl1825
stack1832
sprag1841
hurry1847
bottom1851
salt1852
pipe1861
mill1868
tram1883
stope1886
sump1910
crow-pick1920
stockpile1921
spec1981
1832 H. Martineau Hill & Valley iv. 62 There is much labour in..stacking and loading the mine.
1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining 234 Stack out, to dam off or shut up the entrance to a goaf by building a wall of stone or coal in front of it.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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