heaped, ppl. a.
(hiːpt)
[f. prec. + -ed1.]
1. Gathered or thrown into a heap; piled up.
| c 1440 Promp. Parv. 235/2 Heepyd, cumulatus. 1592 W. Wyrley Armorie, Ld. Chandos 95 As lurcking sparke in hept straw inclosed. 1632 Milton L'Allegro 147 A bed Of heaped Elysian flowers. 1820 Shelley Vision Sea 128 The heaped waves behold The deep calm. 1881 Besant & Rice Chapl. Fleet i. xii, Heaped-up piles of fruit and vegetables. |
2. Having its contents piled up above the brim instead of being levelled. heaped measure, a dry measure used for certain commodities which are heaped up in a cone above the brim of the measure.
| 1530 Palsgr. 315/1 Heaped, as thynges that be measured, comble. 1581 Lambarde Eiren. iv. iv. (1588) 455 If any person have bought..corne by heaped measure. 1659 Willsford Scales Comm., Archit. 5 The common allowance for lime is one quarter, or 8 bushels (heap'd measure) to every 1000 of bricks. 1740 Berkeley Let. to T. Prior 8 Feb. Wks. 1871 IV. 263 A heaped spoonful of rosin. 1866 Rogers Agric. & Pr. I. x. 168 When the bushel is described as heaped, nine struck bushels are reckoned as equal to eight heaped. 1896 Whitaker's Alm. 424 Coke, apples, potatoes..are still sold by heaped measures and the sack of three bushels. |
3. fig. Accumulated; stored up.
| 1402 Hoccleve Let. of Cupid 407 Hir heped vertu hath swich excellence. 1513 Douglas æneis i. Prol. 228 In mair hepit malice. 1847 Disraeli Tancred iv. iv. (1871) 264 All the heaped-up lore of ages. 1865 Neale Glor. Parad. 66 O how dear, how heaped, the rapture! |