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Pyre vs Eyre - What's the difference?

pyre | eyre |

As nouns the difference between pyre and eyre

is that pyre is a funeral pile; a combustible heap on which corpses are burned while eyre is (uk|legal|obsolete) a journey in circuit of certain itinerant judges called justices in eyre'' (or ''in itinere ).

pyre

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which corpses are burned.
  • :* For nine long nights, through all the dusky air, The pyres thick flaming shot a dismal glare. - Homer Iliad, p. 31
  • Any heap or pile of combustibles.
  • Anagrams

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    eyre

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • (surname)
  • Derived terms

    * Eyrean