Quarrel before accident involving eastern pile of junk (9)
I believe the answer is:
scrapheap
'pile of junk' is the definition.
'scrapheap' can be an answer for 'junk' (I've seen this before). I am not sure about the 'pile of' bit.
'quarrel before accident involving eastern' is the wordplay.
'quarrel' becomes 'scrap' (I've seen this before).
'before' says to put letters next to each other.
'accident' becomes 'hap' (hap is a kind of accident).
'involving' is an insertion indicator.
'eastern' becomes 'e'.
'hap' going around 'e' is 'heap'.
'scrap'+'heap'='SCRAPHEAP'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for scrapheap that I've seen before include "Discard pile" , "To which old iron is consigned, for instance" , "Pile of discards" , "Pile of discarded items" , "Junk" .)