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hummock
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synonyms: hillock, drumlin, tump, barrow ???
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Definition:a small hill
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Out on the hummock where he'd made love to Jessie, the water would flood within twenty feet.
Sue Monk Kidd. The Mermaid Chair, p.195 (2005)
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Tall tree, Spy-glass shoulder, bearing a point to
the N. of N.N.E.
Skeleton Island E.S.E. and by E.
Ten feet.
The bar silver is in the north cache; you can find
it by the trend of the east hummock, ten fathoms
south of the black crag with the face on it.
The arms are easy found, in the sand-hill, N.
point of north inlet cape, bearing E. and a
quarter N.
J.F.
Robert Louis Stevenson. Treasure Island (1883)
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