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Definition of Scrapheap
1. Noun. An accumulation of refuse and discarded matter.
Generic synonyms: Dump, Dumpsite, Garbage Dump, Rubbish Dump, Trash Dump, Waste-yard, Wasteyard
2. Noun. Pile of discarded metal.
Definition of Scrapheap
1. Noun. A pile in which junk is discarded. ¹
2. Noun. (figuratively) A collection of discarded or rejected items or ideas. ¹
3. Noun. A junkyard. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Scrapheap
1. [n -S]
Literary usage of Scrapheap
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the System of Evidence in Trials at Common Law: Including the by John Henry Wigmore (1915)
"... and they may well be relegated to the scrapheap of unnecessary judicial
machinery"; to which we may thankfully agree, with the saving request that a ..."
2. A Supplement to A Treatise on the System of Evidence in Trials at Common Law by John Henry Wigmore (1915)
"... and they may well be relegated to the scrapheap of unnecessary judicial
machinery"; to which we may thankfully agree, with the saving request that a ..."
3. The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon (1921)
"In the year 1801, (during the presidency of Thomas Jefferson,) it was most
unceremoniously relegated to the historical scrapheap. The brutal fellow who ..."
4. The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon (1921)
"In the year 1801, (during the presidency of Thomas Jefferson,) it was most
unceremoniously relegated to the historical scrapheap. The brutal fellow who ..."
5. Civilization in the United States: An Inquiry by Thirty Americans by Harold E. Stearns (1922)
"Nations tottered and ancient Empires crumbled to dust and were hastily carried
to the nearest historical scrapheap. The ambitious monarch, who for thirty ..."
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