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Hummock   Listen
noun
Hummock  n.  
1.
A rounded knoll or hillock; a rise of ground of no great extent, above a level surface.
2.
A ridge or pile of ice on an ice field.
3.
Timbered land. See Hammock. (Southern U.S.)





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"Hummock" Quotes from Famous Books



... scrubby vegetation, closed in the bridal chamber. Creepers festooned the rocky ledges and crevices. Here and there, a young sapling slanted forward to greet the morning sun when it should rise behind the hummock. ...
— Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land • Rosa Praed
... out of the harbor. Behind lay the city, fringed with lazily smoking lime-kilns, each contributing its quota to the dim haze that obscured the shore-line. Leaving on their left the little light on the tip of the long granite breakwater, and presently on their right the white tower on the hummock of Owl's Head, marking the entrance of rocky Muscle Ridge Channel, they were soon plowing across the blue floor of West Penobscot Bay. Due north, Rockport Harbor opened between wooded shores, while beyond it rose the Camden Hills, monarchs of the rolling line of mountains ...
— Jim Spurling, Fisherman - or Making Good • Albert Walter Tolman
... an opening of the wood, his eye embraced the scene of the encampment. The fire had been built upon a heathy hummock of the ground, surrounded on three sides by thicket, and it now burned very strong, roaring aloud and brandishing flames. Around it there sat not quite a dozen people, warmly cloaked; but though the neighbouring snow was trampled down as by a regiment, Dick looked in vain for ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 8 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson


Words linked to "Hummock" :   anthill, hammock, hillock, kopje, knoll, molehill, mound, formicary, koppie


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