Hypertext Webster Gateway: "stack"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Stack \Stack\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stacked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Stacking}.] [Cf. Sw. stacka, Dan. stakke. See {Stack}, n.]
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Stack \Stack\, a. [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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
stack
n 1: an orderly pile
2: (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent:
"a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of
money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "it must
have cost plenty" [syn: {batch}, {deal}, {flock}, {good
deal}, {great deal}, {hatful}, {heap}, {lot}, {mass}, {mess},
{mickle}, {mint}, {muckle}, {peck}, {pile}, {plenty}, {pot},
{quite a little}, {raft}, {sight}, {slew}, {spate}, {tidy
sum}, {wad}, {whole lot}, {whole slew}]
3: a list in which the next item to be removed is the item most
recently stored (LIFO) [syn: {push-down list}, {push-down
stack}]
4: a large tall chimney through which combustion gases and
smoke can be evacuated [syn: {smokestack}]
5: a storage device that handles data so that the next item to
be retrieved is the item most recently stored (LIFO) [syn:
{push-down storage}, {push-down store}]
v 1: load or cover with stacks; "stack a truck with boxes"
2: to arrange in a stack or pile; "stagger the chairs in the
lecture hall" [syn: {stagger}, {distribute}]
3: arrange in stacks; "heap firewood around the fireplace";
"stack your books up on the shelves" [syn: {pile}, {heap}]
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