scrap heap

See also: scrapheap and scrap-heap

English

Noun

scrap heap (plural scrap heaps)

  1. Alternative form of scrapheap.
    • 1956 November, William A. Burke, Jr., “The American "Shay" Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, pages 749, 776:
      Dieselisation saw the withdrawal of Shay engines on the Western Maryland, but No. 6 was rescued from an inglorious demise on the scrap heap, and now rests in the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad's transport museum in Baltimore, which contains many other interesting railway exhibits.
    • 1960 February, “Swansea & Mumbles closure”, in Trains Illustrated, page 95:
      The large double-deck Brush electric cars which replaced steam in 1929 and were the largest passenger-carrying road vehicles in the country, will follow the fixed assets to the scrap heap.
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