stack, stac, stak, stakke

[Icel. stakkr = a stack of hay; stakka =a stump; stack =a colum. nar, isolated rock; Sw. stack =a rick, a heap, a stack; Dan.stak. Allied to stake and stick.] 1. Grain in the sheaf, hay, pease, straw, ., piled up in a circular or rectangular heap, coming to a point or ridge at the top, and thatched to protect it from the weather. 2. A pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet; also, a pile of poles or wood of indefinite quantity. "The Indians 5. A columnar, isolated rock; a high rock de tached; a precipitous rock rising out of the sea. "Fenced by many a stack and skerry, Full of rifts, and full of jags." Blackie: Lays of Highlands and Islands, p. 11. Stack of arms: Mil .: A number of small fire-arms set up together so that their bayonets cro . stack-borer, subst. An instrument for piercing stacks of hay to admit air, when the hay has become dangerously heated, stack-cover, subst . A cloth or canvas cover suspended over stacks while being built, to protect them from the rain, .