Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. A native or inhabitant of hilly or mountainous country; a tribesman who lives in the mountains.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A man who lives in a hill-country; in the plural, same as hill-folk; specifically, the Covenanters.
- n. The foreman of a dust-heap.
Etymologies
Examples
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A very moving piece and beautifully written by keith hillman
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There is still so much to do and so little time. by keith hillman
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The centerpiece of the evening was an aged hillman, stripped to the waist and bound to a wooden frame.
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My best plan, I soon discovered, was to do and say as little as possible, and act the surly, reserved hillman who walked by himself, and whom it was safest not to disturb.
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Do they not know this even where you come from, hillman?
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I knew what this meant, and it took me aback, for it's the ultimate honour a hillman can do to you: Yakub Beg wanted to make me his blood brother.
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Contact you dream? you listen? spoken word? brenda hillman | phone booth
brenda hillman | phone booth « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
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He later teams up with a Kenzankian hillman and a priest of Mitra to hunt down one nasty, vampiric she-bitch of a sorceress who used dark magic to sap the life from the new King of Brythunia.
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You have to understand, I love the all the short stories that Howard wrote back in the thirties, that is the conan I love, the vengfull, bloodlusting, womanizing, hillman chief.
Lionsgate's Conan Movie on the Fast Track with New Writers « FirstShowing.net
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You cannot make a limousine lady out of a hillman minx.
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