stack-upon-the-kill

• stack-upo'-the-kill

From the cry of the people joining the dogpile.

stack-upon-the-kill (uncountable)

1. (UK, historical, games) A dogpile game played in Cheshire and other areas of Britain.

• more sacks to the mill; see dogpile

• stacks on the mill

• "stack" in Joseph Wright's The English Dialect Dictionary, Vol. V, London: H. Frowde, 1898-1905.