n. A pile of grain in the sheaf, or of hay, straw, pease, etc., gathered into a circular or rectangular form, often, when of large size, coming to a point or ridge at the top, and thatched to protect it from the weather.n. A pile of sticks, billets, poles, or cordwood; formerly, also, a pyre, or burial pile.n. A pile or group of other objects in orderly position.n. A number of funnels or chimneys standing together.n. A single chimney or passageway for smoke; the chimney or funnel of a locomotive or steam-vessel: also called smokestack. See cuts under passenger-engine and puddling-furnace.n. A high detached rock; a columnar rock; a precipitous rock rising out of the sea.n. A customary unit of volume for fire-wood and coal, generally 4 cubic yards (108 cubic feet). The three-quarter stack in parts of Derbyshire is said to be 105 or 106 cubic feet.n. plural A large quantity; “lots”: as, stacks of money.To pile or build in the form of a stack; make into a regularly formed pile: as, to stack grain.To make up (cards) in a designed manner, so as to secure an unfair advantage; pack.An obsolete or dialectal preterit of stick (and stick).n. In gambling and banking games, twenty chips or counters.n. A group of retorts set together in the furnace for the manufacture of coal-gas.n. That part of a blast-furnace which extends from the boshes to the throat.