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foot-hill orig. U.S.|ˈfʊthɪl|
[foot n. 18.]
A hill forming a lower eminence at the foot of a mountain or mountain-range.
1850Western Star (Milwaukie, Ore.) 21 Nov. 3/2 The most productive portions..have been in the foot-hills. 1870W. Gladden in Scribner's Monthly I. 153 The road leading to it passes over and among a series of conical foot-hills that rest against the base of the mountains. 1873J. H. Beadle Undevel. West xv. 253 In California, everything under two thousand feet high is called a hill; if it leads up to a mountain, a foothill. 1879I. L. Bird Rocky Mount. 232 The long ascent through sweeping foothills to the gates of rock at a height of 9000 feet. 1882Rep. Prec. Metals U.S. 262 The mineral belt is in the western foot-hills of the Verde range of mountains. 1916J. B. Thoburn Hist. Oklahoma II. 4 The Black Mesa is in reality one of the foot-hills of the Rocky mountains. 1971Nature 4 June 330/2 This bandicoot is widespread in the forested foothills and lowlands of western New Guinea. 1971Daily Tel. 19 July 7/1 Its primary object is the exploration of Hadley Rille, one of the Moon's mysterious ‘ditches’ in the foothills of the Apennine range. |