Category:Stack

Stack, a. Etym: [icel. stakkr; akin to sw. stack, dan. stak. Sf. Stake.]

1. 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. But corn was housed, and beans were in the stack. Cowper.

2. A pile of poles or wood, indefinite in quantity. Against every pillar was a stack of billets above a man's height. Bacon.

3. A pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet. [eng.]

4. (arch.) (a) a number of flues embodied in one structure, rising above the Roof. Hence: (b) 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. (computer programming) (a) a section of memory in a computer used for temporary storage of Data, in which the last datum stored is the first retrieved. (b) a data structure within random-access memory used to simulate a Hardware stack, as, a push-down stack. Stack of arms (mil.), a number Of muskets or rifles set up together, with the bayonets crossing one Another, forming a sort of conical self-supporting pile.

Stack Stack, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stacked; p. pr. & vb. n. Stacking.] Etym: [cf. Sw. stacka, dan. stakke. See stack, n.]

Defn: 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. To Stack arms (mil.), to set up a number of muskets or rifles together, With the bayonets crossing one another, and forming a sort of conical Pile.