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pyre
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Beowulf - (translated by: Hall)
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{Danish warriors are burned on a funeral-pyre.†

pyre = a pile of wood or other burnable material
The best of the Scylding braves was then fully
Prepared for the pile; at the pyre was seen clearly
The blood-gory burnie, the boar with his gilding,
The iron-hard swine, athelings many
60 Fatally wounded; no few had been slaughtered.†
The bairn of her bosom to bear to the fire,
That his body be burned and borne to the pyre.†
B. 1110 (_ready for the pyre_), El.†
*
There the spirit of AEschere, aged adviser,
90 Was ready to vanish; nor when morn had lightened
Were they anywise suffered to consume him with fire,
Folk of the Danemen, the death-weakened hero,
Nor the beloved liegeman to lay on the pyre;
{She suffered not his body to be burned, but ate it.†
Now is haste most fitting,
That the lord of liegemen we look upon yonder,
65 And _that_ one carry on journey to death-pyre
Who ring-presents gave us.†
{Wiglaf charges them to build a funeral-pyre.†
Then the son of Wihstan bade orders be given,
Mood-valiant man, to many of heroes,
Holders of homesteads, that they hither from far,
[6]Leaders of liegemen, should look for the good one
55 With wood for his pyre: "The flame shall now swallow
(The wan fire shall wax[7]) the warriors' leader
Who the rain of the iron often abided,
When, sturdily hurled, the storm of the arrows
Leapt o'er linden-wall, the lance rendered service,
60 Furnished with feathers followed the arrow."†
{Beowulf's pyre.†

Definitions:

(1) (pyre)
a pile of wood or other burnable material -- especially to burn a dead body as in a funeral rite
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)