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Definition of Slagheap
1. Noun. Pile of waste matter from coal mining etc.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slagheap
Literary usage of Slagheap
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Nature of Landscape: A Personal Quest by Han Lorzing (2001)
"... 1 A reference to the past: Mining lamp monument on a German slagheap, Otto
Piene 2 Borrowing from the neighbors' heritage: Place de Bruges in Cite ..."
2. The Mirrors of Downing Street: Some Political Reflections by a Gentleman by Harold Begbie (1921)
"... so conspicuous that for a moment one is tempted to confuse prominence with
eminence, and to mistake the slagheap of upheaval for the peaks of Olympus. ..."
3. Adventure Guide Naples, Sorrento & the Amalfi Coast by Marina Carter (2006)
"At San Sebastiano: The lava was pushing its way very quietly down the main street,
and about 50 yards from the edge of this great, slowly-shifting slagheap, ..."
4. The Mirrors of Downing Street: Some Political Reflections by Harold Begbie (1921)
"... so conspicuous that for a moment one is tempted to confuse prominence with
eminence, and to mistake the slagheap of upheaval for the peaks of Olympus. ..."
5. Saving the Tsars' Palaces by Christopher Morgan, Irina Orlova (2005)
"Insisting that the driver stop and back up, they discovered a small slagheap of
marble busts, fragments of ceiling paintings and some four hundred books ..."
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