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Heap   /hip/   Listen
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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"Heap" Quotes from Famous Books



... was open wide enough to admit a delicate feminine hand, which pressed into the housekeeper's palm a little heap of money. By the light of the lamp Frau Zsuzsa recognized the shining silver coins, and the door was opened its ...
— The Nameless Castle • Maurus Jokai
... with science," responded Eph, loftily. "Say, if you landsmen know a buoy from a banana, get down to the bow moorings of this steel mermaid, and I'll pass you the bow cable. It's a heap easier to lead this submarine horse out of the stall, single-handed, than it is to take him ...
— The Submarine Boys and the Middies - The Prize Detail at Annapolis • Victor G. Durham
... shore as yo''re a-livin', after all thet Sary said, 'Fore we started home that evenin' she hed bought a foldin'-bed; An' she's put it in the parlor, where it adds a heap o' style; An' we're sleepin' in the settin'-room at present fer a while. Sary still maintains it's han'some, "an' them city folks'll see That we're posted on the fashions when they visit us," says she; But it plagues her some to tell her, ef it ain't no other use, We can ...
— The Book of Humorous Verse • Various
... said the girl, turning to the Lady Lucia, "I shall bring him here at once and sit down by this heap of cushions, and then—Oh, god of my heart! What shall I do with that big man—what ...
— Vergilius - A Tale of the Coming of Christ • Irving Bacheller
... of an hour later he came out on the river close to Stevens' camp. A little nearer he saw Stevens squatted close to a smouldering fire about which he was drying some clothes. The boy was huddled in a disconsolate heap near him. Aldous called softly, and Stevens slowly rose and stretched himself. The packer advanced to where he had screened himself behind a clump of bush. His first look at the other assured him that he was right in using caution. ...
— The Hunted Woman • James Oliver Curwood


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