hummock

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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.

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  1. noun A low mound or ridge of earth; a knoll.
  2. noun A tract of forested land that rises above an adjacent marsh in the southern United States.
  3. noun A ridge or hill of ice in an ice field.

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  • He settled back on a mossy hummock, and in no time at all he was snoring. —  F ;SF; - vol 098 issue 03 - March 2000
  • She found firmer footing beyond a hummock, and was satisfied that she could make a good run for it if she had to. —  Zombie Lover
  • The most recent suit lays claim to nearly 300 acres of marsh, hummock islands and mud flats just off the Mount Pleasant shoreline out to Inlet Creek. —  Stories: Local News
  • 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
  • Although we did not venture back again into the bottom of the hummock, we succeeded in killing a couple of fat gobblers, which amply supplied us all with supper and breakfast the next morning 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
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  1. Origin unknown.

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  1. Also written hommock and hammock; perhaps an assimilated form of humpock, diminutive of hump (like hillock, diminutive of hill); cf. Low German hümpel, a little heap or mound: see hump. Cf.hummie.
 

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