Fu·ner·al, a. Pertaining to a funeral; used at the interment of the dead; as, funeral rites, honors, or ceremonies.
Funeral pile or Funeral pyre, a structure of combustible material, upon which a dead body is placed to be reduced to ashes, as part of a funeral rite; a pyre.
-- Fu*ner*al*ly, adv. [Obs.]
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funeral pyre
n : wood heaped for burning a dead body as a funeral rite [syn:
pyre]