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t or ridge, and sometimes covered with thatch. But corn was housed, and beans were in the stack. Cowper.

A covering or protection, as a canvas, for a stack.

Hay, gray, or the like, in stacks; things stacked. [R.]

A stockade. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

from Stack. Stacking band, Stacking belt, a band or rope used in binding thatch or straw upon a stack. -- Stacking stage, a stage used in building stacks.

A staging for supporting a stack of hay or grain; a rickstand.

A yard or inclosure for stacks of hay or grain. A. Smith.

A stack or conical pile of hay in the open air.

A chimney; esp., a pipe serving as a chimney, as the pipe which carries off the smoke of a locomotive, the funnel of a steam vessel, etc.

To remove, or take away, from a stack; to remove, as something constituting a stack.

An ancient rural game, commonly played round stacks of barley, or other grain, in which some of the party attempt to catch others who run from a goal.

he sheet iron casing at the end of boilers to convey the smoke from the flues to the smokestack.

o a regular form, usually rectangular, and sun-dried, or burnt in a kiln, or in a heap or stack called a clamp. The Assyrians appear to have made much less use of bricks baked in the furnace than the Babylonians. Layard.

The top sheaf of a stack of grain: (fig.) the crowning or finishing part of a thing.

A wire cap for the smokestack of a locomotive.

To call out or forth; to summon; to evoke. [R.] Stackhouse.

Unburned brick or tile, stacked up for drying.

A stackyard. [Prov. Eng.] Swift.

hay cold, and rose fever. -- Hay knife, a sharp instrument used in cutting hay out of a stack or mow. -- Hay press, a press for baling loose hay. -- Hay tea, the juice of hay extracted by boiling, used as food for cattle, etc. -- Hay tedder, a machine for spreading and turning newmown hay. See Tedder.…

), to place three guns together so that they may stand upright, supporting each other; to stack arms.