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hill-top
1. The top or summit of a hill.
1530Palsgr. 231/1 Hyll toppe, crespe or creste de montaigne. 1535Coverdale Jer. xxxi. 39 The hill toppe of Gareb. 1667Milton P.L. viii. 520 The amorous Bird of Night Sung Spousal, and bid haste the Eevning Starr On his Hill top, to light the bridal Lamp. 1784Cowper Task i. 222 'Tis perched upon the green hill top. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 497 The sun is still upon the hill-tops.
attrib.1893Grant White in Westm. Gaz. 7 June 2/1 The healthy antique principle of hill-top habitation. 1897Daily News 3 June 5/6 The lighting of the hill-top bonfires.
2. Special Comb. hill-top novel, the name given by Grant Allen to those of his novels in which he expressed his views on moral and social questions, especially views not generally acceptable to his contemporaries; hill-top surface (see quot. 1961).
1895G. Allen British Barbarians p. xi, I propose in future to add the words, ‘A Hill-top Novel’, to every one of my stories which I write of my own accord, simply and solely for the sake of embodying and enforcing my own opinions. Ibid. p. xvi, Why, once more, this particular name, ‘A Hill-top Novel’? For something like this reason. I am writing in my study on a heather-clad hill-top... Everything around is fresh and pure... But away below in the valley, as night draws on, a lurid glare..marks the spot where the great wen of London heaves and festers. 1896Pearson's Mag. May 556/1 Latterly he [sc. Grant Allen] has doubled up his social philosophy with his fiction, producing what he calls ‘Hill Top’ novels. 1901Sketch XXV. 256/2 The lady sports⁓woman is the Colonel's abomination; he regards her as a monstrous product of the divided skirt and the ‘Hill⁓top’ novel. 1930J. Challinor in Geography Dec. 656 The object of the foregoing remarks is therefore to suggest that a hill-top surface, having a ‘plateau quality’ about it, need not necessarily be evidence of an uplifted peneplane. 1961― Dict. Geol. 100/1 Hill-top surface, an imaginary surface, as smooth as possible, touching the tops of the hills of a region. |