Definition of "scrap-heap" [scrap-heap]

• Alternative spelling of scrapheap. (noun)

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• "Of course you do not think so; but I do not see that that will prevent you from aiding me to fling the anachronism into the scrap-heap."
• "The doctrine of Malthus was knocked into a cocked hat — or flung to the scrap-heap, as Goliah would have put it."
• "This incentive has been a useful device for the development of the human; but it has now fulfilled its function and is ready to be cast aside into the scrap-heap of rudimentary vestiges such as gills in the throat and belief in the divine right of kings."