heep

See also: Heep

English

Noun

heep (plural heeps)

  1. (obsolete) The hip of the dog rose.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “heep”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English hepe, from Old English hēap, from Proto-West Germanic *haup.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /hiːp/

Noun

heep

  1. heap
    • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 9, page 88:
      A clugercheen gother: all, ing pile an in heep,
      A crowd gathered up: all, in pile and in heap,

References
  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 88
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