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Definition:
hills or rocky heights

Mark Haddon. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, p.71 (2003)
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1. A tower; a turret. [R.] Ray.
2. High-pointed hill; a rocky pinnacle. [Prov. Eng.]

Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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A rolling range of dreary moors, unbroken by tor or tree.

C. Kingsley.
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sometimes it is fun not knowing what the words mean because you can look them up in a dictionary, like goyal (which is a deep dip) or tors

Mark Haddon. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, p.71 (2003)
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The way took us up again, rising into low rolling hills that gave way gradually to granite tors and crags.

Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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To that secure hiding-place the great buccaneer had committed the hoard gathered in his numberless piratical expeditions, burying all together under the shadow of a petty porphyritic tor that overhangs the green valley of Bovey Tracy.

Grant Allen. The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories (1887)
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Our wagonette had topped a rise and in front of us rose the huge expanse of the moor, mottled with gnarled and craggy cairns and tors.

Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902)
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