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Owns different ammunition to pile up (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

snowball

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'pile up' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both man-made objects as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?

'owns different ammunition' is the wordplay.
'different' indicates an anagram.
'ammunition' becomes 'ball' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'owns' anagrammed gives 'snow'.
'snow'+'ball'='SNOWBALL'

'to' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for snowball that I've seen before include "Quickly get bigger" , "Keep getting bigger" , "Increase rapidly in size - advocaat and lemonade" , "Cocktail made from lemonade and advocaat" , "Wintry missile - demonised by 17" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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