a collection of objects laid on top of each other

[ Syn: pile , mound , agglomerate , cumulation , cumulus ]

(often followed by `of) a large number or amount or extent; a batch of letters; a deal of trouble; a lot of money; he made a mint on the stock market; see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos; it must have cost plenty; a slew of journalists; a wad of money

[ Syn: batch , deal , flock , good deal , great deal , hatful , lot , mass , mess , mickle , mint , mountain , muckle , passel , peck , pile , plenty , pot , quite a little , raft , sight , slew , spate , stack , tidy sum , wad ]

a car that is old and unreliable; the fenders had fallen off that old bus

[ Syn: bus , bus , jalopy , jalopy ]

bestow in large quantities; He heaped him with work; She heaped scorn upon him'

arrange in stacks; heap firewood around the fireplace; stack your books up on the shelves

[ Syn: stack , pile ]

fill to overflow; heap the platter with potatoes'