Hillock
['hɪlək]
Definition
(n.) A small hill.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Knoll, mound.
Typist: Lycurgus
Examples
- He looked to where the sound came from; but nothing appeared there save the verge of the hillock stretching against the sky in an unbroken line. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- A list of the genera of plants collected on the loftier peaks of Java, raises a picture of a collection made on a hillock in Europe. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- At the sand-hillocks we were met by the under-groom, running to us from the house. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Sergeant Cuff went on between the hillocks of sand, down to the beach. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Clym's retreating figure got smaller and smaller as it rose and fell over the hillocks on his way. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- It embraced hillocks, pits, ridges, acclivities, one behind the other, till all was finished by a high hill cutting against the still light sky. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The ground, shelving away below me, was all sand, with a few little heathy hillocks to break the monotony of it in certain places. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
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