Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A low mound or ridge of earth; a knoll.
- noun A tract of forested land that rises above an adjacent marsh in the southern United States.
- noun A ridge or hill of ice in an ice field.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A low hill of sand on the sea-shore. Compare
dune . - noun A low elevation, hillock, or knoll.
- noun The form of the hand when the fingers are joined and bent in an even line, or bunched with the end of the thumb: as, to mak' a hummock.
- noun As much of any loose material as can be taken up in the hand with the fingers so bent: as, a hummock of meal.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A rounded knoll or hillock; a rise of ground of no great extent, above a level surface.
- noun A ridge or pile of ice on an ice field.
- noun Southern U.S. Timbered land. See
Hammock .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A small
hill ; ahillock ; aknoll . - noun A ridge or hill of ice in an ice field.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a small natural hill
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Running straight out from behind the hummock was a furrow in the snow like the trail made by an otter.
The Golden Snare James Oliver Curwood 1903
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He arose, as did Mr. Hersebom, and they commenced climbing a hill of ice and snow -- a hummock is the technical name -- in order to obtain a general idea of their island.
The Waif of the "Cynthia" Jules Verne 1866
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We had to cross what is called a hummock, which was in reality a depression, but not low enough to be swampy.
In the Wilds of Florida A Tale of Warfare and Hunting William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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Just outside the hummock was a cabbage-palm, which, as I have said, abounds in Florida.
In the Wilds of Florida A Tale of Warfare and Hunting William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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The only signs of life are occasional groups of negroes about some saw-mill, on a "hummock," or a glimpse of dusky forms on a barge floating along one of the Stygian canals, as the train glides smoothly and swiftly by.
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Sometimes the boat enters a pleasant inlet, where the pines on the shores have cut across the "hummock" and stand quaintly draped in Spanish moss, as if they had come to be baptized.
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The Swift One did not wait for me, nor did she pause till she had passed beyond Hair-Face a hundred yards and gained a much larger hummock.
CHAPTER XVII 2010
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Hair-Face ran out on the quaking morass and gained the firmer footing of a grass-hummock a dozen yards away.
CHAPTER XVII 2010
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If one's foot missed a hummock, he plunged down through unpacked snow and usually to a fall.
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It was necessary to jump from one hummock of swamp grass to another.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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