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Definition of heaping : of Heap

Synonyms:

full, abundant, running over, large

netting, pocketing, accumulating, procuring, landing, taking, cornering, claiming, amassing, garnering, obtaining, fetching, harvesting, incurring, scoring, receiving, getting, buying, wrangling, winning, collecting, acquiring, securing, adding, assuming, annexing, retrieving, luring, reaping, catching, capturing, palming, bagging, purchasing

Usage examples:

• He had generally to fall back on his own experience; and, guided by that, things were not doing badly in his estimation, when, one day, Sylvia said to him, as they were in the hay- field, heaping up the hay into cocks with Dolly Reid's assistance- 'Kester- I didn't tell thee- there were a letter from Measter Hall, Lord Malton's steward, that came last night and that Philip read me. - "Sylvia's Lovers -- Complete", Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell.
• She had been heaping up riches, and had not known who should gather them. - "The Iron Woman", Margaret Deland.
• To ward off this danger there was only one resource, and this was to re- enforce their barrier by heaping up the drift ice and snow around the vessel to protect her as well as they could. - "The Waif of the "Cynthia"", André Laurie and Jules Verne.