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noun

Heap n.

1.

A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of persons. (Now Low or Humorous) "The wisdom of a heap of learned men." "A heap of vassals and slaves." "He had heaps of friends."

2.

A great number or large quantity of things not placed in a pile; as, a heap of trouble. (Now Low or Humorous) "A vast heap, both of places of scripture and quotations." "I have noticed a heap of things in my life."

3.

A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation; as, a heap of earth or stones. "Huge heaps of slain around the body rise."

verb

Heap v. t. (past & past part. heaped; pres. part. heaping)

1.

To collect in great quantity; to amass; to lay up; to accumulate; usually with up; as, to heap up treasures. "Though he heap up silver as the dust."

2.

To throw or lay in a heap; to make a heap of; to pile; as, to heap stones; often with up; as, to heap up earth; or with on; as, to heap on wood or coal.

3.

To form or round into a heap, as in measuring; to fill (a measure) more than even full.

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Etymology of 'Heap'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Heap" Quotes from Famous Books

... Minnie and the driver's cry of despair were both stopped abruptly by the rush of snow, and were smothered in the heap under which they were buried. The whole party stood paralyzed, gazing stupidly downward where the avalanche was hurrying on to the abyss, bearing with it the ill-fated Minnie. The descent was a slope of smooth snow, which went down at an angle of forty-five ...

— The American Baron • James De Mille

... rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a moldering heap, Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of ...

— The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 - Sorrow and Consolation • Various

... soldier, and is charged before God to preach and rebuke with long-suffering. The solemnity of these words is equalled by the pungent sarcasm with which the writer alludes to the schismatics who "lead captive silly women" or will "heap to themselves ...

— The Books of the New Testament • Leighton Pullan

... the Mayflower, and putting into the fire the alpenstock with which her father climbed Mont Blanc)—besides, these, I say (imitating the style of Robinson Crusoe), there were pitchforked in on us a great rowen-heap of humbugs, handed down from some unknown seed-time, in which we were expected, and I chiefly, to fulfil certain public functions before the community, of the character of those fulfilled by the third row of supernumeraries who stand behind the Sepoys ...

— The Best American Humorous Short Stories • Various

... the young women would exercise an honorable independence and heap contempt upon the young men that allow their imagination to take such liberties, a different state of things would soon follow. Men of that type of character should have no recognition in the ...

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