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hillock
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synonyms: hummock, drumlin, tump, barrow, knap ???
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Definition:a small hill or mound
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It washed me up onto the tiny marsh island where Whit had built his hermatage on a hillock beneath a sole palmetto palm.
Sue Monk Kidd. The Mermaid Chair, p.183 (2005)
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In the morning (17th) we landed on Chatham Island, which, like the others, rises with a tame and rounded outline, broken here and there by scattered hillocks, the remains of former craters.
Charles Darwin. Darwin’s Journal: The Galapagos
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‘Climb to that hillock, pass that bank, and by the time you reach the other side I shall have raised the birds.’
Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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we climbed the small hillock behind the inn, exchanging rather strained politenesses from time to time.
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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he had to mow round a hillock or a tuft of sorrel. The old man did this easily. When a hillock came he changed his action, and at one time with the heel, and at another with the tip of his scythe, clipped the hillock round both sides with short strokes.
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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she looked at the long tracks of dust on the floor that made it look as if Jones had plowed rather than mopped it. There were linear streaks of clean floor for the furrows, and linear streaks of dust, the hillocks.
John Kennedy Toole. A Confederacy of Dunces (1980)
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