originally. Proper name of a place near Gehenna or the Valley of the Son or Children of Hinnom, south of Jerusalem, where, according to Jeremiah…

(a) = sense 1d; (b) that part of a gun-factory where rifles, etc. are tested; (c) a place where rubbish is shot.

A place where rubbish may be ‘shot’; = tip, n.5 4b.

a place where refuse, etc., is deposited; also transferred and figurative.

(Originally U.S.) A place where refuse material, esp. from a mine or quarry, or that collected from domestic refuse bins, is deposited.

A place where rubbish is or may be emptied out; a ‘coup’.

a place where dust and refuse are shot or deposited.

Scottish. A place where rubbish is deposited; a rubbish dump or tip.

a rubbish dump.

A place or receptacle into which earth or rubbish is tipped or shot; a dumping-ground.