death pile

plural death piles

1. Unsold inventory.

   We were frustrated and started drudging through our "death pile"

   2023 March 31, “Dealing with “Death Piles” and Excess Inventory”, in ConsignCloud

   1 more example

   Death piles are a necessity for those times when one is too busy to source

   2019 May 30, almasty, “How to Eliminate Your Death Pile in 8 Easy Steps”, in Scavenger Life

2. A pile of corpses.
3. A funeral pyre.
4. A burial barrow or dolmen.

   “Will you ask our oldest warriors to build me a barrow? Ask them to climb this headland and build me a death pile high on its top.”

   1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 47