ant-heap
See also: antheap
English
Noun
ant-heap (plural ant-heaps)
- An ant-hill.
- 1901 April 12, The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 3, page 75:
- All along the Coast we have ant-heaps ten feet high, and more in diameter.
- 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus, published 2010, page 9:
- The floor was made of crushed ant-heap, the hard dome of excavated earth above an ant colony, and was kept smooth by smearing it regularly with fresh cow dung.
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Anagrams
- panthea