Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A low mound or ridge of earth; a knoll.
- n. A tract of forested land that rises above an adjacent marsh in the southern United States.
- n. A ridge or hill of ice in an ice field.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A low elevation, hillock, or knoll. The word was much used by the early navigators to designate a rounded mass of land seen in the distance. It is now chiefly applied — to the protuberances on the surface of a mass of rough ice, particularly in high latitudes; to the hillocks or more or less solid spots rising above the general level of a swamp or of marshy land. Hummocks, or islets as they are sometimes called, constitute a marked feature of the swamps and savannas of the southern Atlantic States, and are often covered with dense forest-growth.
- n. The form of 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.
- n. As much of any loose material as can be taken up in the hand with the fingers so bent: as, a hummock of meal.
- n. A low hill of sand on the sea-shore. Compare dune.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A rounded knoll or hillock; a rise of ground of no great extent, above a level surface.
- n. A ridge or pile of ice on an ice field.
- n. Southern U.S. Timbered land. See Hammock.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a small natural hill
Etymologies
- Unknown (Wiktionary)
- Origin unknown. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Running straight out from behind the hummock was a furrow in the snow like the trail made by an otter.”
“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.”
“Just outside the hummock was a cabbage-palm, which, as I have said, abounds in Florida.”
“We had to cross what is called a hummock, which was in reality a depression, but not low enough to be swampy.”
“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.”
“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.”
“It was necessary to jump from one hummock of swamp grass to another.”
“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.”
“Hair-Face ran out on the quaking morass and gained the firmer footing of a grass-hummock a dozen yards away.”
“If one's foot missed a hummock, he plunged down through unpacked snow and usually to a fall.”
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
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abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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Gene Wolfe
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Interesting words
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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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End in -ock
Inspired by fbharjo (see spitchcock).
spitchcock, hillock, willock, peacock, pajock, penock, yapock, sycock, bittock, bawcock, burrock, cammock and 168 more...
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Words for ice and snow
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(excluding all the food ice)ice, icicle, frazil, frasil, sleet, slush, snow, flurry, snowfall, freeze, flash-freeze, quick-freeze and 618 more...
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Landscape
riparian, littoral, talus, fen, ambit, savanna, remnant prairie, shortgrass prairie, tallgrass prairie, marsh, swamp, marshy and 199 more...
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oddball
wackadoodlery.
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GRE uncommon
patronage, expletive, exhort, exegesis, execrable, excommunicate, evince, escarpment, ersatz, ergo, epoxy, snare and 1202 more...
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Geographical Fun
the Earth's geographic beauty & diversity.
arroyo, atoll, badlands, barrier island, berm, box canyon, cataract, chasm, escarpment, estuary, grotto, gulch and 54 more...
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Driftology
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driftology, beachcomber, skookum, wrack, jackstraw, driftologist, garbage patch, ghost net, autodumbfoundment, phytoplankton, gyre, hindcast and 58 more...
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set 16
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over hill
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hill, mesa, mountain, hummock, tussock, ridge, butte, knoll, escarpment, tor, bank, bump and 23 more...
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