pyre

plural pyres

1. A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which corpses are burned.

   The effigy was set ablaze on the pyre.

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   The villagers built a funeral pyre to honor their dead.

   For nine long nights, through all the dusky air, The pyres thick flaming shot a dismal glare.

   Iliad, p. 31

2. Any heap or pile of combustibles.

   Flames rose high from the pyre in the night sky.