drumlin

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When I was 10, I lived with my family at the foot of a drumlin -- a long, undulating hill of moraine formed by eddies of the ancient glacier melt.

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  1. noun An elongated hill or ridge of glacial drift.

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  • Facing the page where Hermann Banger's son Henry drew the drumlin were the rows of symbols to drum it up, yellow suns and blue moons, in thirty-two rows of eight. —  Asimov's Science Fiction, April 2002
  • “I don't much like talk of magic, and metal's just metal, drumlin or not, and it can't dance by magic nor listen to whistles My good-luck piece sure liked to have flown right out of my shirt when you blew that thing!” I said, like I'd told him too many times by then He didn't say anything for a long time, drumlin wrench in his hand. —  Asimov's Science Fiction, April 2002
  • Star of Valinor was way ahead of us now, and without our left beam we'd be lucky to finish the ten klicks at a crawl Mike shoved past me, cursing like he almost never does, and he was grabbing for the drumlin rope-loop that was flapping in the wind, and tied to the cross-handle valve that fed steam to Rosa's wish-whistle. —  Asimov's Science Fiction, April 2002
  • When I was 10, I lived with my family at the foot of a drumlin -- a long, undulating hill of moraine formed by eddies of the ancient glacier melt. —  The AnarchAngel
  • We will go drumlin on some troll haids! freeman Says: —  Think Progress
 

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  1. From drum, ridge, from Irish Gaelic druim, back, ridge, from Old Irish.
 

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