noun
- piles or mounds of dust, dirt, or refuse
Usage: plural form; often refers to accumulated waste or debris
Examples
- The old warehouse was surrounded by dustheaps from years of neglect.
- Workers cleared the dustheaps that had accumulated behind the factory.
- Victorian London was notorious for its massive dustheaps throughout the city.
- The wind scattered debris from the dustheaps across the empty lot.
- After the demolition, dustheaps marked where the building once stood.