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Definition of Junk pile
1. Noun. An accumulation of refuse and discarded matter.
Generic synonyms: Dump, Dumpsite, Garbage Dump, Rubbish Dump, Trash Dump, Waste-yard, Wasteyard
Lexicographical Neighbors of Junk Pile
Literary usage of Junk pile
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Technology Review by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Association of Class Secretaries, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alumni Association (1899)
"Every valve or valve part that goes wrong in our shop has our own junk pile
staring it in the face. Our system of testing will not allow a defective to pass ..."
2. Dust and Destiny: Fifteen Sermons by Merton Stacher Rice (1921)
"The junk-pile is not all failure. The size of the junk-pile is ... Someone once
said, "The Yankee leads the world because he is not afraid of a junk-pile. ..."
3. The Forks of the Road by Washington Gladden (1917)
"When we begin to suggest the possibility of sending some of our ships to the junk
pile you spend a few hundred millions in building new ones and then come ..."
4. The Engineers' Review (1905)
"This I got out of a junk pile. ... A heater was also made from an old heater
shell and a coil of pipes which was found in the same junk pile. ..."
5. The Child Labor Bulletin by National Child Labor Committee (U.S.) (1914)
"And they end—in the Human junk pile, before their lives are fairly well started.
A lad makes a misstep, falls into a machine, loses his fingers and "ain't ..."
6. Proceedings of the Annual Conference by Indiana Science Teachers' Association, American Society of University Composers (1899)
"The first cost of such a good outfit is somewhat more than the junk pile, to be
sure, just as the student developed by the laboratory ought to be somewhat ..."
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