All 5 Uses

pyre
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Obasan
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At first it was arranged to send the body to Spokane, but some carpenters told Obasan they would build a pyre and take turns keeping the fire going throughout the night at the old silver mine.†
Chpt 18

pyre = a pile of wood or other burnable material
A little distance from the pyre, there are two stacks of wood.†
Chpt 18 *
One man is pouring gasoline from a rectangular tin carefully onto all the logs of the pyre and another is binding a cloth onto the end of a stick.†
Chpt 18
He hands the torch to Stephen and helps him hop to the gasoline-soaked pyre.†
Chpt 18
One evening when she had given up the search for the day, she sat down beside a naked woman she'd seen earlier who was aimlessly chipping wood to make a pyre on which to cremate a dead baby.†
Chpt 37

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)