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a pile of wood or other burnable material — especially to burn a dead body as in a funeral rite
- It has an unspeakable, wild, Hindoo odor about it, such as may lurk in the vicinity of funereal pyres.Chapters 94-96 — A Squeeze of the Hand; The Cassock; The Try-Works (67% in)
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