Meanings
nounant-heap (plural ant-heaps)
plural ant-heaps
- An ant-hill.
All along the Coast we have ant-heaps ten feet high, and more in diameter.
1901 April 12, The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 3, page 751 more example
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.
1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 9
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