Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who heaps, piles, or amasses.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who heaps, piles, or amasses.
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- noun One who
heaps , piles, or amasses.
Etymologies
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Examples
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A weaker dollar makes the purchase of dollar-denominated futures c heaper for market participants using other currencies, and can fuel speculative buying in commodities.
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Honestly, I'm a film major who loves & understands all that goes into shooting on film, but HD video technology just makes so much sense -- heaper, easier, instant feedback.
Why Or Why Didn’t The HD Video Look Of Public Enemies Work For You? | /Film 2009
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It's like heaping scholarly scorn on the Garden of Eden: it's redundant, and risks making the heaper look ridiculous.
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It's like heaping scholarly scorn on the Garden of Eden: it's redundant, and risks making the heaper look ridiculous.
Archive 2007-11-01 2007
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His island position, his early discoveries of coal, iron, and processes of manufacture have made him, of course, into a confirmed industrialist and trader; but he is more of an adventurer in wealth than a heaper-up of it.
New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 April-September, 1915 Various
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Once this heaper-up of Chinese merit [AM] was dumped unceremoniously on the turf while the headman entered into a blackguarding contest with one of the fellows who was alleged to be constantly out of step with his brethren, because he was a much smaller man.
Across China on Foot Edwin John Dingle 1926
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Porthos! careful heaper up of treasures, was it worth while to labor to sweeten and gild life, to come upon a desert shore, to the cries of sea birds, and lay thyself, with broken bones, beneath a cold stone!
The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836
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Oh, noble Porthos! careful heaper-up of treasure, was it worth while to labor to sweeten and gild life, to come upon a desert shore, surrounded by the cries of seagulls, and lay thyself, with broken bones, beneath
The Man in the Iron Mask Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836
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They'd be a heaper better contented in parting from one another if they knowed that they belonged to each other, certain sure, no matter what might happen. "
Her Mother's Secret Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth 1859
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