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# woodpile

«woodpile» in Mova's school dictionary: **a neat heap or stack of logs or chopped wood, usually…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a woodpile, woodpiles)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A woodpile is a neat heap or stack of logs or chopped wood, usually kept outside for burning in a fire or stove. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/woodpile/#m1)

2) In older sayings, a hidden problem is sometimes called something hiding in the woodpile. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/woodpile/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life a woodpile stands next to a house, cabin or campsite and holds firewood for a fireplace, wood stove or campfire. In nature lessons it is a home for insects, spiders, mice, lizards and snakes, so children learn to wear gloves and look before reaching in. Phrases: stack the woodpile, a pile of wood, from the woodpile.

### examples

- Dad stacked the logs on the woodpile behind the shed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/woodpile/#x1)
- Grandma asked me to fetch three logs from the woodpile. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/woodpile/#x2)
- A little mouse ran out from under the woodpile. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/woodpile/#x3)
- Wear gloves when you take wood from the woodpile because spiders hide there. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/woodpile/#x4)
- The woodpile was covered with a tarp to keep it dry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/woodpile/#x5)
- By the end of winter the woodpile was almost gone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/woodpile/#x6)
- We counted 40 logs in the woodpile and burned 6 a day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/woodpile/#x7)
- Snakes sometimes sleep in a warm woodpile in Australia, so be careful. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/woodpile/#x8)
- His woodpile was not yet kindled. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/woodpile/#x9)

### note

Countable noun: one woodpile, two woodpiles. It is a compound of wood + pile, written as one word. Safety: woodpiles can hide snakes, spiders and wasps; never climb on one because logs can roll and fall. A woodpile is not the same as a bonfire, which is wood that is burning.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «woodpile» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/woodpile/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.