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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pyre \Pyre\, n. [L. pure, Gr ?, fr ? fire. See {Fire}.]
A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which the dead are
burned; hence any pile to be burnt.
For nine long nights, through all the dusky air, The
pyres thick flaming shot a dismal glare. --Pope.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
pyre
n : wood heaped for burning a dead body as a funeral rite [syn:
{funeral pyre}]
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