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Definition of Heap up
1. Verb. Arrange into piles or stacks. "She piled up her books in my living room"
Definition of Heap up
1. Verb. to increase over a period of time; to accumulate ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heap Up
Literary usage of Heap up
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Trial of Scott Nearing and the American Socialist Society: Presiding by Scott Nearing, American Socialist Society (1919)
"Nations heap up mountains of debt that must crush joy out of Europe for fifty years.
Through the crevices and the yawning chasms of this frightful wreckage ..."
2. A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1901)
"... to heap up, amplify.— L. ext very ; agger, a heap, from ag- = ad, to ; gerere,
to bring. Exalt. (F.-L.) F. exalter.-~L. exaltare, to lift out, exalt. ..."
3. A Cyclopædic Dictionary of the Mang'anja Language Spoken in British Central by David Clement Ruffelle Scott (1892)
"... hoe up a new garden when they heap up the piles of sticks and straws and grass.
... heap up ..."
4. The American Definition Spelling Book: In which the Words are Not Only by Abner Kneeland (1814)
"... a. that may be read, apparent, plain Ag iret-ate, v. to heap up Prec-e-dent, ».
a Ion going act, example, rule Flag-tl et, n. a small flute Prec-i-pic^, ..."
5. Glossary of Terms and Phrases by Henry Percy Smith (1883)
"[Query : Are these two words or only one with some radical meaning of straightness,
whence to balk = (i) to check, disappoint ; (2) to heap up in a ridge ? ..."
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