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Definition of Rubbish dump
1. Noun. A piece of land where waste materials are dumped.
Specialized synonyms: Eitchen Midden, Kitchen Midden, Midden, Garbage Heap, Junk Heap, Junk Pile, Refuse Heap, Rubbish Heap, Scrapheap, Trash Heap, Trash Pile, Toxic Dumpsite, Toxic Waste Dump, Toxic Waste Site
Generic synonyms: Land Site, Site
Derivative terms: Dump, Dumpy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rubbish Dump
Literary usage of Rubbish dump
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Planet Geographyby Stephen Codrington by Stephen Codrington (2005)
"... Six-Mile rubbish dump. of the Papuans, 3.0% of the New Guinea Coastals and
only 0.7% of the Highlanders have formal job certification. ..."
2. Sweet Battlefields: Youth and the Liberian Civil War by Mats Utas (2003)
"The rubbish dump, on the beach, is another primary source of income, yielding
among other things copper, found inside old engines and cables, ..."
3. Elements of Field Hygiene and Sanitation by Joseph Herbert Ford (1918)
"A tin can in front of each tent should collect the refuse discarded by its occupants.
Refuse should be hauled to the dump. FIG. 106.—rubbish dump. ..."
4. Municipal Engineering Practice by Amory Prescott Folwell (1916)
"... cost about 20 to 30 cents per ton per mile, and the rubbish would be the
cheaper fuel if the incinerator was only a mile further than the rubbish dump, ..."
5. The Home and Its Management: A Handbook in Homemaking, with Three Hundred by Mabel Hyde Kittredge (1917)
"... from old mattresses are sold to various manufacturers. After each scow of
rubbish is looked over it is leveled off and taken to the city's rubbish dump. ..."
6. The Home and Its Management: A Handbook in Homemaking, with Three Hundred by Mabel Hyde Kittredge (1918)
"... from old mattresses are sold to various manufacturers. After each scow of
rubbish is looked over it is leveled off and taken to the city's rubbish dump. ..."
7. Pollution of New York Harbor as a Menace to Health by the Dissemination of by Daniel Dana Jackson, Merchants' Association of New York (1907)
"2nd Avenue; rubbish dump for elevated car sweepings. 3rd Avenue and 130th Street;
bad condition under bridge and along shore. An open closet in lot west of ..."
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