A mountain, mount, hill, or hillock. (Applied, as the date becomes later, to lower eminences.)
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| 释义 | the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > rising ground or eminence > [noun] > hillock (40) barrowc885 A mountain, mount, hill, or hillock. (Applied, as the date becomes later, to lower eminences.) burrowc885 A heap or mound; in earlier use a hillock; now, esp. a heap of refuse made in mining or beat-burning. See beat-borough n. at beat, n.3 compounds. berryc1000 Any small globular, or ovate juicy fruit, not having a stone; in Old English chiefly applied to the grape; in modern popular use, embracing the… knapc1000 The head, crest, or summit of a hill; a small hill, hillock, or knoll; a rising ground; a short steep ascent. Chiefly dialect. (Cf. knob, n. 2, nab… knollc1000 A small hill or eminence of more or less rounded form; a hillock, a mound. ball1166 A rounded hill, a knoll. Now English regional (south-western). howa1340 A hill, hillock: now only in some local names in the north of England, as Great How, Silver How, Brant How, How Hill (near Ripon), etc. toft1362 An eminence, knoll, or hillock in a flat region; esp. one suitable for the site of a house or tower. Cf. quot. 1863. Now local. hillocka1382 A little hill. tertre1480 A little hill; a rising ground; an eminence. Cf. territory, n.2 knowec1505 = knoll, n.1; a mound, a hillock; an area of rising ground, a rise. hilleta1552 A hillock. hummock1555 A protuberance or boss of earth, rock, etc., usually conical or dome-shaped, rising above the general… originally. ‘A name given by mariners to a… mountainettea1586 A small mountain; a hillock, mound. Also in extended use. tump1589 A hillock, mound, a mole-hill, or ant-hill; a barrow, tumulus. local. butt1600 A hillock, a mound. Now only in emmet-butt n. at emmet, n. compounds 2. mountlet1610 A small mountain. Also figurative. mounture1614 A raised surface or platform, spec. one used in mounting a horse; a mound, a hillock. Obsolete. colline1641 A small hill. tuft1651 A grassy hillock, a small knoll or mound. (Cf. toft, n.1 3) Obsolete. rare. knock?17.. A hill; a hillock, a knoll. tummock1789 A hillock, mound, knoll. mound1791 A small naturally occurring elevation resembling a heap or pile of earth; a hillock. Also in extended use. tomhan1811 A small hill, hillock, or knoll; (chiefly) a mound of a type formed by glacial moraines, typically found at the heads of valleys in the Scottish… koppie1848 In South Africa: A small hill. tuffet1877 A hillock, mound: = tuft, n. 3b. Subcategories:— on summit (1) — artificial or covering ruins (4) — type of (9) |
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