ant-heap

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See also: antheap

English

Noun

ant-heap (plural ant-heaps)

  1. 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: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: 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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