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n. - Pile of waste matter from coal mining etc.

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Usage examples (22)
  • Did I deserve to be sent to the slagheap of history?
  • Another month, another small slagheap from my visits to used-bookstores.
  • Interest in the instrument dissipated, and the Glass Harmonica fell onto the slagheap of musical history.
  • After a century of conflict, a dozen worlds had been ravaged, Ashkelon was reduced to a slagheap, and the Sons were all dead, along with over twenty million others.
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