culch vs heap

culch

noun
  • Junk or debris. 

  • The rocks, crushed shells, and other sea detritus that create an oyster bed, where oyster spawn can attach themselves; a collection of such detritus, accumulated on land, to drop in the sea to build up oyster beds. 

  • An accumulation of small items of little current value -- materials, broken items, miscellaneous fasteners -- for possible future use. 

verb
  • To prepare an oyster bed with such (culch) attachments; to sort shellfish or fish catch by size -- most often oysters -- so as to throw back the smallest to grow bigger and breed. 

adj
  • Location where potentially useful junk items are collected: culch corner, culch drawer, culch pile. 

heap

noun
  • A dilapidated place or vehicle. 

  • A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children. 

  • A lot, a large amount 

  • A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people. 

  • Memory that is dynamically allocated. 

  • A great number or large quantity of things. 

  • A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation. 

verb
  • To pile in a heap. 

  • To supply in great quantity. 

  • To form or round into a heap, as in measuring. 

adv
  • very; representing broken English stereotypically or comically attributed to Native Americans 

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