He climbed onto the pyre himself and stayed there, without uttering another sound, until the fire consumed him.
We brought her back to the house and placed her in the burn pit on a wooden pyre.
Behind the village they erect a pyre, on which they burn the straw figure, reviling and scoffing at it the while.
The property and belongings of the deceased were placed on a pyre along with the body, to accompany the spirits.
British Dictionary definitions for pyre
pyre
/paɪə/
noun
1.
a heap or pile of wood or other combustible material, esp one used for cremating a corpse
Word Origin
C17: from Latin pyra, from Greek pura hearth, from pur fire
Word Origin and History for pyre
n.
1650s, from Latin pyra and directly from Greek pyra "funeral pyre; altar for sacrifice; any place where fire is kindled," from pyr "fire," cognate with Old English fyr (see fire (n.)).