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hillock

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishhillok, equivalent tohill +‎-ock.

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hillock (pluralhillocks)

  1. A smallhill.
    • 1895 October,Stephen Crane, chapter XI, inThe Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War, New York, N.Y.:D[aniel] Appleton and Company,→OCLC,page107:
      As he rounded ahillock, he perceived that the roadway was now a crying mass of wagons, teams, and men.
    • 1938, Norman Lindsay,Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.:Ure Smith, published1962,→OCLC, page63:
      With the setting sun sending long shadows loping ahead of them over the smoothhillocks of the downs, they came up with the lagoon; a contentful return home, with appetite brisked up by a ten-mile walk, and plenty of food to satisfy it.
    • 2014 September 16, Ian Jack, “Is this the end of Britishness”, inThe Guardian:
      Just upstream of Dryburgh Abbey, a reproduction of a classical Greek temple stands at the top of a woodedhillock on the river’s north bank.

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small hill

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