Fires were lit to reduce the size of the trash pile. Some variations permit picking up the entire discard pile. Men pile up wealth, only for another to waste it. Cards are played by laying them face-up on top of the discard pile. The topmost card of each pile is turned face up. A cairn is a man-made pile (or stack) of stones. The worms instinctively burrow to the bottom of the pile. So it was to be reduced to a pile of ashes. Wisconsky discovers Warwick with a severe head wound buried beneath a pile of bones. During the building, workers would pile mounds of earth on the sides of the colossus. These continuous applications pile onto the backlog. She did, but Cash put it on a large pile with others. The former commandant was forced to lie amidst a pile of corpses. Current observations are consistent with Phobos being a rubble pile. He delivered a large pile of basalt stones.