hill

UK /hɪl/ US [hɪɫ]
noun 5name 5verb 2

Definitions

noun

1

An elevated landmass smaller than a mountain.

The park is sheltered from the wind by a hill to the east.

So this was my future home, I thought![…]Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.

2

A sloping road.

You need to pick up speed to get up the hill that's coming up.

3

A heap of earth surrounding a plant.

4

A single cluster or group of plants growing close together, and having the earth heaped up about them.

a hill of corn or potatoes

5

The pitcher’s mound.

verb

1

To form into a heap or mound.

Spread, heaped up, stacked with good things; and redolent of citrons and grapes, hilling round tall vases of wine;

2

To heap or draw earth around plants.

After the seeds were inserted, the earth was hilled up all around into a smooth little mound.

name

1

Capitol Hill; the US Congress

2

Parliament Hill; the Parliament of Canada; the parliamentary precinct in Ottawa as opposed to parliamentary functions elsewhere in the country

3

A topographic surname from Middle English for someone who lived on or by a hill.

Ms. Davis — who at different points in the set called to mind Andrew Hill, Cecil Taylor and Paul Bley, without resorting to mimicry — often led this charge, starting out with a blank canvas and creeping slantwise into a repeatable motif.

4

A number of places:

5

A number of places:

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