How to pronounce stack

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What stack means

noun

Most people know stack in its everyday sense. Here's its other meaning.

A tall pillar of rock standing alone off a coast

In a sentence: Puffins nested high on the stack, which the waves had cut off from the cliffs long ago.

Where it comes from: It comes from Old Norse stakkr, a heap or a haystack. The rock meaning grew from the idea of a tall heap.

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