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fish pile Nfld 
a stack of codfish so built as to shed rain.
See also: faggot ((n.))
- 1861 When sufficiently dry, a fine warm day is chosen to lay the fish out, singly, on a large stage; and during the hottest hours they are made up into a "fish pile,"--which is a large quantity of dry fish, built up in the form of a round haystack.
- 1861 When sufficiently dry, a fine warm day is chosen to lay the fish out, singly, on a large stage; and during the hottest hours they are made up into a "fish pile,"--which is a large quantity of dry fish, built up in the form of a round haystack.