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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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"Heap" Quotes from Famous Books



... each other defiantly, and poise and edge around. Then the poet, more daring, rushes in, and instantly the two have grappled—each clutching the other's left wrist in his right hand. The struggle that follows is hot and even, until a lucky thrust from the orator's foot lands the poet in a sprawling heap; whence he rises with a ferocious grin and renews the contest. The second time they both fall together. "A tie!" calls the long-gowned friend who acts as umpire, with an officious flourish ...
— A Day In Old Athens • William Stearns Davis
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... uncle, "I thought you'd say that. No, boys, John didn't die. A Kapus takes a heap o' killin.' John up an lived— an' married! He married my girl, too, Susie Bunker. Susie felt awful sorry for him, for that there rebel bullet had kinder made scrambled eggs with pore John's brains. I let Susie marry John, because I knew that he needed a good woman's keer. And then ...
— Bunch Grass - A Chronicle of Life on a Cattle Ranch • Horace Annesley Vachell
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... cooks dinner and when I gits back dey has four doctors with Mr. Benny. He wife say to me, 'Liza, you got de sight. Am Benny gwineter git well?' I goes and looks and I knowed he gwine way from dere. I knowed he was gone den. Dey leant on me a heap after dat. ...
— Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves. - Texas Narratives, Part 2 • Works Projects Administration
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... was said. He was preparing to leave, when his brother-in-law entered. Aaroe looked at her boys out on the snow-heap, he looked at her flowers, her piano, her music, then asked if he might come again. He had been there hardly five minutes, but an impression rested on her mind somewhat as the magnificent fair beard rested on the silk waistcoat. ...
— The Bridal March; One Day • Bjornstjerne Bjornson
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... at Lucien with an expression of a mother bereft of her child's remains, Jacques Collin sank in a heap. As he saw Lucien's body carried away, he uttered a groan that made the men hurry off. The public prosecutor's private secretary and the governor of the prison had already made ...
— Scenes from a Courtesan's Life • Honore de Balzac
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