Emily Dickinson Lexicon

HEAP, n. [Sax. heap, heop; D. hoop; G. haufe; Sw. hop; Dan. hob; Russ. kupa; W. cub, a heap, what is put together, a bundle, a cube. See Class Gb, No. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.]

1. A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body so as to form an elevation; as, a heap of earth or stones. Huge heaps of slain around the body rise. Dryden.
2. A crowd; a throng; a cluster; applied to living persons. [Inelegant and not in use.] Bacon. Dryden.
3. A mass of ruins. Thou host made of a city a heap. Is. xxv.