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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
compost heap
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Always remove rose prunings, leaves, blooms and other bits to the fire and not to the compost heap.
▪ An alternative to digging in the green manure in spring is to cut and add the material to the compost heap.
▪ Instead of tossing my garbage over the deck, I must tend it in a compost heap.
▪ So keep up the heat in your compost heap by covering it with black plastic sheets, old carpets or sacking.
▪ The compost heap was outside, not in her bedroom.
▪ The acidity in the citrus is excellent for raising the acid level in the compost heap.
▪ There is a corker gathering steam not far from my cottage over the siting of a compost heap.
WordNet
compost heap

n. a heap of manure and vegetation and other organic residues that are decaying to become compost [syn: compost pile]

Usage examples of "compost heap".

If I had not told Bill to go ahead and sell the place, the compost heap would still have been there, the Jewel would still have been there.

There were two of them, hiding in the lilac bushes close by the compost heap that Annie Peterson used on her vegetable garden.

Now, if he was really looking for something of yours and knew about the compost heap, he could still be out there for all I know.

Pym showed her the wood cache, and made a sensible suggestion for placing Lord Mark's compost heap near it rather than in the underground garage, assuring her it would be just fine there.

Lay down on this bag of potting soil instantly or you'll get squashed flat and you'll be no good for anything but the compost heap.

An empty-eyed skull showed through the slowly churning compost heap.