woodpilen.

Brit.

/ˈwʊdpʌɪl/, U.S.

/ˈwʊdˌpaɪl/

Forms: see wood n.¹ and pile n.⁶

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: wood n.¹, pile n.⁶

Etymology: < wood n.¹ + pile n.⁶

1. A pile or stack of wood, especially one constructed of logs stored as fuel for burning.

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1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Woode pyle, strues.

1696 J. Aubrey Miscellanies vi. 68 The Cook Maid, going to the Wood-pile to fetch Wood to dress Supper.

1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. i. vi. 107 They built a Town, and fenced it round about with a kind of Wood-pile, or Wall of great Timber Trees.

1703 tr. L. de Lahontan New Voy. N.-Amer. II. 31 Then every one brings his Offering and laies it upon the Wood-Pile.

1883 ‘M. Twain’ Life on Mississippi xxii. 257 The seldomest spectacle on the Mississippi to-day is a wood-pile.

1903 Minneapolis (Minnesota) Jrnl. 12 Dec. 3/1 One day my sister Hazel and I were playing out by a high woodpile and we saw across the street, two boys playing on another woodpile.

1970 D. J. Borror & R. E. White Field Guide Insects 178 Both adults and larvae occur in rotting vegetation, woodpiles, mammal nests, and sometimes on flowers.

2020 Weekly Times (Austral.) (Nexis) 18 Nov. 62 Lessons we learned included not keeping a woodpile outside the fence after ours caught fire.

2. In phrases of the type —— in the woodpile: a situation which is adversely affected by a concealed motive or unknown factor.In early use, apparently often used in phrases regarded as euphemistic alternatives to the offensive phrase a nigger in the woodpile (see nigger n. and adj. Phrases 2b), although all such uses referring to a person by race or nationality should now be treated as likely to cause offence. Later also in more neutral allusive use.

1857 Burlington (Iowa) Weekly Hawk-eye 16 Dec. There is the blackest kind of an African in that wood pile, and we invite a close inspection and careful watch.

1887 Evening Gaz. (Monmouth, Illinois) 23 May 1/5 Prominent Irish leaders are in communication with friendly members of the assembly and senate with the view of finding out the exact character of the colored man in the wood pile.

1924 Packer Act Amendm.: Hearings before Comm. Agric. House of Representatives: Serial N (68th Congr., 1st Sess.) 82 Well, there is an Ethiopian in the woodpile somewhere.

1936 W. Stevens Let. 13 May (1967) 311 I agree that there is something wrong in the woodpile.

1977 ‘J. D. White’ Salzburg Affair xvi. 139 He was the odd man out, the African in the woodpile.

2004 Times & Transcript (New Brunswick) (Nexis) 14 July d8 High priced properties are assessed for half the value and mediocre properties assessed for double the value. Something is suspicious in the woodpile.

3. Music slang. A xylophone.

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1867 Burlington (Vermont) Weekly Free Press 9 Aug. We have seen one ‘play on a woodpile’ before, but never heard such harmony got out of the operation.

1932 H. Breuer in Catal. Copyright Entries: Pt. 3 (Libr. of Congr. Copyright Office) 27 1152/2 (title of sheet music) On the woodpile.

2007 Longview (Texas) News-Jrnl. 2 Feb. c2/6 His second solo, ‘Caprice Valsant’, is known as a ‘character piece’ for the xylophone because it was written to showcase the instrument known affectionately as a woodpile.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022).

单词	woodpile
释义	woodpilen. Brit. /ˈwʊdpʌɪl/, U.S. /ˈwʊdˌpaɪl/ Forms: see wood n.¹ and pile n.⁶ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: wood n.¹, pile n.⁶ Etymology: < wood n.¹ + pile n.⁶ 1. A pile or stack of wood, especially one constructed of logs stored as fuel for burning. ΚΠ 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Woode pyle, strues. 1696 J. Aubrey Miscellanies vi. 68 The Cook Maid, going to the Wood-pile to fetch Wood to dress Supper. 1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. i. vi. 107 They built a Town, and fenced it round about with a kind of Wood-pile, or Wall of great Timber Trees. 1703 tr. L. de Lahontan New Voy. N.-Amer. II. 31 Then every one brings his Offering and laies it upon the Wood-Pile. 1883 ‘M. Twain’ Life on Mississippi xxii. 257 The seldomest spectacle on the Mississippi to-day is a wood-pile. 1903 Minneapolis (Minnesota) Jrnl. 12 Dec. 3/1 One day my sister Hazel and I were playing out by a high woodpile and we saw across the street, two boys playing on another woodpile. 1970 D. J. Borror & R. E. White Field Guide Insects 178 Both adults and larvae occur in rotting vegetation, woodpiles, mammal nests, and sometimes on flowers. 2020 Weekly Times (Austral.) (Nexis) 18 Nov. 62 Lessons we learned included not keeping a woodpile outside the fence after ours caught fire. 2. In phrases of the type —— in the woodpile: a situation which is adversely affected by a concealed motive or unknown factor.In early use, apparently often used in phrases regarded as euphemistic alternatives to the offensive phrase a nigger in the woodpile (see nigger n. and adj. Phrases 2b), although all such uses referring to a person by race or nationality should now be treated as likely to cause offence. Later also in more neutral allusive use. Π 1857 Burlington (Iowa) Weekly Hawk-eye 16 Dec. There is the blackest kind of an African in that wood pile, and we invite a close inspection and careful watch. 1887 Evening Gaz. (Monmouth, Illinois) 23 May 1/5 Prominent Irish leaders are in communication with friendly members of the assembly and senate with the view of finding out the exact character of the colored man in the wood pile. 1924 Packer Act Amendm.: Hearings before Comm. Agric. House of Representatives: Serial N (68th Congr., 1st Sess.) 82 Well, there is an Ethiopian in the woodpile somewhere. 1936 W. Stevens Let. 13 May (1967) 311 I agree that there is something wrong in the woodpile. 1977 ‘J. D. White’ Salzburg Affair xvi. 139 He was the odd man out, the African in the woodpile. 2004 Times & Transcript (New Brunswick) (Nexis) 14 July d8 High priced properties are assessed for half the value and mediocre properties assessed for double the value. Something is suspicious in the woodpile. 3. Music slang. A xylophone. ΚΠ 1867 Burlington (Vermont) Weekly Free Press 9 Aug. We have seen one ‘play on a woodpile’ before, but never heard such harmony got out of the operation. 1932 H. Breuer in Catal. Copyright Entries: Pt. 3 (Libr. of Congr. Copyright Office) 27 1152/2 (title of sheet music) On the woodpile. 2007 Longview (Texas) News-Jrnl. 2 Feb. c2/6 His second solo, ‘Caprice Valsant’, is known as a ‘character piece’ for the xylophone because it was written to showcase the instrument known affectionately as a woodpile. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022). < n.1552
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