Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗To arrange in a stack, or to add to an existing stack. · To arrange the cards in a deck in a particular manner, especially for cheating. · To arrange or fix to obtain an advantage; to deliberately distort the composition of (an assembly, committee, etc.). · To take all the money another player currently has on the table.
A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, larger at the bottom than the top, sometimes covered with thatch. · A pile of similar objects, each directly on top of the last. · A pile of poles or wood, indefinite in quantity. · A pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet. (~3 m³)
From Middle English stack, stacke, stakke, stak, from Old Norse stakkr (“a barn; haystack; heap; pile”), from Proto-Germanic *stakkaz (“a barn; rick; haystack”). The data structure sense is a calque of Dutch stapel, introduced by Edsger W. Dijkstra. Cognate with Icelandic stakkur (“stack”), Swedish stack (“stack”), Danish stak (“stack”), Norwegian stakk (“stack”). Related to stake and sauna.
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This page abbreviates 23 auxiliary source items. The etymology narrative is not shortened. Omission counts are available in the audit fields below; consult the original for complete auxiliary material.
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