They had built two roughly conical piles at the Eastline site in the last six years.

When bulk granular materials are poured onto a horizontal surface, a conical pile will form.

Using his strong legs and feet, the male scrapes together material from the area around his chosen nest site, gradually building a conical or bell-shaped pile.

On the bottom sixty feet below was a conical pile of coral blocks with a hole in the top.

The gold-rich fines made four conical piles on the sheet of polythene, looking exactly like powdered black soot.

The ten elves ran to their horses and mounted, taking their lances from the conical pile they'd been arranged in.

When it was done, there was a low, conical pile of stones on Church's grave, and Louis did indeed feel a small, tired pleasure.

There, investigators have a kind of assembly line to sift the conical piles of light metal more and more finely.

The name likely comes from "bule" or "bure", which designates a large square or conical pile of branches, high enough to be burned.

There would have been no almost with that deadly if the broken rock had not heaped itself into a conical pile.