What is "slagheap"

Usage examples of "slagheap".

Even the stupid people of Flinton with their dreadful slagheap up the road with nothing but coal in their ground claim that she was born there can you believe that?

Still, as I climbed down and saw its turning wheels and slagheaps, I still felt a cold wash of disappointment.

Grey houses under grey slagheaps – and now Anna came from there as well.

The bus lumbered with grinding reluctance up twisting mountain roads, itswindscreen wipers flapping wildly, to a plateau in the clouds and then embarked on a precipitate, seemingly out-of-control descent into Blaenau Ffestiniog through steep defiles covered with numberless slagheaps of broken, rain-shiny slate.

At the epicentre of this unearthliness squatted the village of Blaenau, itself a kind of slate slagheap, or so it seemed in the teeming rain.