WordNet
refuse heap
n. an accumulation of refuse and discarded matter [syn: garbage heap, junk heap, rubbish heap, scrapheap, trash heap, junk pile, trash pile]
Usage examples of "refuse heap".
Outside of a beggar boy who scuttled behind a refuse heap as I passed, I saw no one until I reached the next street-Cinch Street.
She had trained herself not to see the dead buried in the refuse heap Trollocs and Darkfriends had made of Caemlyn.
Hurrying back across the road he went to the refuse heap behind the other factory and picked up some of the potsherds.
Straight down fifteen feet was a wilderness of ash barrels and boxes and papers-a typical refuse heap of a cheap tenement.
The address was in the scummiest section of the town, hard by the communal refuse heap.