Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An elongated hill or ridge of glacial drift.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as drum, 2.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Geol.) A hill of compact, unstratified, glacial drift or till, usually elongate or oval, with the larger axis parallel to the former local glacial motion.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a mound of glacial drift
Etymologies
- Irish droim 'back, ridge' + English dim. suffix -lin (variant of -ling) (Wiktionary)
- From drum, ridge, from Irish Gaelic druim, back, ridge, from Old Irish. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Cook Inlet is level to rolling, with areas of ground moraine and stagnant ice topography, drumlin fields, eskers, and outwash plains.”
“One of the biggest maybe the biggest? drumlin fields on the planet.”
“But I looked at the rolling drumlin scenery around me, unchanged in generations, and thought that the dangers they would be face would be few.”
“Glacial influences have shaped landform features throughout the region and are particularly evident from the numerous fjords in the southern portion of the region and the drumlin fields (small hills) of Prince of Wales Island.”
“De Geer moraines, drumlin fields, transverse moraines and hummocky moraines occur there but do not form archipelagoes.”
“A lone bank swallow put in an appearance for awhile and then went back to the drumlin to the south.”
“At the least, I shall go sledding even if it means I have to mar the beautiful snow on our drumlin.”
“I grew up in an old, creaky New England colonial farmhouse set up on a drumlin.”
“They were standing at a point where the Great Road crested a long, rolling drumlin which ran diagonally across the plain like a wrinkle in the world's biggest bed'spread.”
“AROUND NOON THE NEXT day they reached the top of another drumlin and saw the bridge for the first time.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘drumlin’.
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Landforms
A Cyclopedia of Landforms.
plain, mountain, canyon, cliff, hill, arch, cave, plateau, mesa, butte, chimney, peneplain and 169 more...
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phrontistery - d
from phrontistery.info
dysteleology, dyslogistic, dystectic, dysphoria, dysphonia, dystopia, dysphemism, dystocia, dyslogia, dysaesthesia, dyschromatopic, dysbulia and 624 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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the earth
Planetary chaos: terrain, landscape and geology excluding rocks. (See "the geologist" list for the latter.)
butte, karst, caldera, mesa, laccolith, cwm, crater, alp, precipice, sierra, badlands, prairie and 122 more...
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azd's Words
adamantine, abatial, ablate, ablative, abrogate, accretive, acromegaly, acrostic, actinism, actinic, acuity, adduce and 968 more...
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Words and phrases of Irish origin, or...
not necessarily eponyms, but might be
boycott, blarney, banshee, galore, keen, donnybrook, colleen, drumlin, phoney, clan, cairn, ceili and 122 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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Rabindranath Not Included
i can't never forget thiccyn's!
bubaline, dezinkhornifistib..., hirundine, bee veil, cuckoo spit, resistentialism, hobthrush, burniebee, hookem-snivey, fattiehead, mompyns, mons and 142 more...
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Random
These are just some random words that I might find a list for someday.
troglodytism, chinkle, vasculum, sabz, cucullus, tricornigerous, cuboctahedron, eruca, gamp, pilum, taha, angelhood and 244 more...
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Lolita
Words to remember from Nabokov's "Lolita"
concordance, limned, lurid, puerility, variorum, perspicacious, exigency, acrostic, solipsism, mnemosyne, involution, fatidic and 227 more...
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Lolita
Words compiled while reading Lolita
lolita, solecism, cognomen, etiolate, tendresse, expiatory, filch, paroxysm, arabesques, sibilant, manque, uranist and 181 more...
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looked up
Words I've come across while reading and looked up in the dictionary.
deesis, pendentive, revetment, aedicule, stemma, patera, ephod, entrepot, corbel, exedra, volute, archivolt and 1406 more...
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Lay of the Land
all kinds of scapes
steppe, veld, veldt, campo, llano, taiga, krummholz, elfinwood, tundra, sward, lea, heath and 197 more...
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glaciation, fluvioglaciation and peri...
pingo, freeze-thaw, loess, solifluction, outwash plain, nivation hollow, drumlin, roche moutonee, ribbon lake, scree slope, blockfield, felsenmeer and 6 more...
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Geology
baraboo, monadnock, peneplain, endrumpf, peneplanation, cairngorm, paleooology, stream capture, allochthon, slickensides, graywacke, tectonics and 56 more...
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over hill
+ elevation
hill, mesa, mountain, hummock, tussock, ridge, butte, knoll, escarpment, tor, bank, bump and 23 more...
Tweets
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bilby Cute word. Sep 8, 2010
knitandpurl "In Scotland, the natural courses come in three main forms: the linksland courses by the sea, the moorland courses everywhere, and the forested parkland courses of the interior, some involving eskers, drumlins, and lateral moraines, but all the result of various glacial effects."
"Linksland and Bottle" by John McPhee, in The New Yorker, September 6, 2010, pp 48-49 Sep 8, 2010