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heaped, ppl. a.|hiːpt|
[f. prec. + -ed1.]
1. Gathered or thrown into a heap; piled up.
c1440Promp. Parv. 235/2 Heepyd, cumulatus. 1592W. Wyrley Armorie, Ld. Chandos 95 As lurcking sparke in hept straw inclosed. 1632Milton L'Allegro 147 A bed Of heaped Elysian flowers. 1820Shelley Vision Sea 128 The heaped waves behold The deep calm. 1881Besant & Rice Chapl. Fleet i. xii, Heaped-up piles of fruit and vegetables.
2. Having its contents piled up above the brim instead of being levelled. heaped measure, a dry measure used for certain commodities which are heaped up in a cone above the brim of the measure.
1530Palsgr. 315/1 Heaped, as thynges that be measured, comble. 1581Lambarde Eiren. iv. iv. (1588) 455 If any person have bought..corne by heaped measure. 1659Willsford Scales Comm., Archit. 5 The common allowance for lime is one quarter, or 8 bushels (heap'd measure) to every 1000 of bricks. 1740Berkeley Let. to T. Prior 8 Feb. Wks. 1871 IV. 263 A heaped spoonful of rosin. 1866Rogers Agric. & Pr. I. x. 168 When the bushel is described as heaped, nine struck bushels are reckoned as equal to eight heaped. 1896Whitaker's Alm. 424 Coke, apples, potatoes..are still sold by heaped measures and the sack of three bushels.
3. fig. Accumulated; stored up.
1402Hoccleve Let. of Cupid 407 Hir heped vertu hath swich excellence. 1513Douglas æneis i. Prol. 228 In mair hepit malice. 1847Disraeli Tancred iv. iv. (1871) 264 All the heaped-up lore of ages. 1865Neale Glor. Parad. 66 O how dear, how heaped, the rapture! |