Add to ORKGcross avTo cross pile. Usually refers to piling sticks of wood, usually firewood -- one layer say east-west, the other north-south, keeping edges as square as possible. This is supposed to allow the air to circulate. The term is also applied to fish piled mainly in a square or rectangular fashion and usually referred to as a "bulk." A bulk is usually about 8 ft by 5 ft. Unlike sticks of wood above where one layer is in one direction and the next layer is in the opposite direction, a bulk might have a couple (or even more) layers in one direction and the next couple or so layers in the opposite direction. Cross piling in this way is supposed to bind the fish and keep the bulk from falling over.Used IUsed IUsed Icross-hackel,...