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Definition of Scrapheaps
1. scrapheap [n] - See also: scrapheap
Literary usage of Scrapheaps
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Making of America by Robert Marion La Follette, William Matthews Handy, Charles Higgins (1906)
"But he rips the lot out, "scrapheaps" it, and has the very latest machinery.
He sees ahead. He sees how he has practically thrown away $150000; ..."
2. Cavalry of the Clouds by Alan Bott (1917)
"actually crawled among the scrapheaps that fringed the ruins of the village.
Only then did the thought that they might be Tanks suggest itself. ..."
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