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heap noun Many, a great deal. [DARE labels this usage “chiefly South, South Midland”]

 1824 Knight Letter from KY 107 Some words used, even by genteel people ... in a new sense; and ... pronounced very uncouthly, as ... heap of times. 1864 Reese CW Letters (May 31) we hav lost a heep of men and kild a heep of yankeys. 1895 Edson and Fairchild TN Mts 376 = many. 1939 Hall Coll (Deep Creek NC) i caught a heap of fish in them mountain streams. 1957 Parris My Mts 7 Why, a heap of folks borrow trouble just because they don’t read nature’s signs and don’t listen to their elders. 1997 Dante OHP-14 He’d get whole barrels of flour at a time, a heap of big bags, and meal and whole sacks of brown and white sugar.