Both Uses

pyre
in
A Grace Given in Sorrow, translated by Fitzgerald
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When Dawn that lights the world of mortals came for the tenth day, they carried greathearted Hektor out at last, and all in tears placed his dead body high upon its pyre, then cast a torch below.†
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pyre = a pile of wood or other burnable material
All being gathered and assembled, first they quenched the smoking pyre with tawny wine wherever flames had licked their way, then friends and brothers picked his white bones from the char in sorrow, while the tears rolled down their cheeks.†

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)