hillock
Collocations
3VERB + HILLOCK
rounded, top, wooded
HILLOCK + NOUN
river, testimony'
PREP.
about, on
Definitions
noun
A small hill.
As he rounded a hillock, he perceived that the roadway was now a crying mass of wagons, teams, and men.
With the setting sun sending long shadows loping ahead of them over the smooth hillocks of the downs, they came up with the lagoon; a contentful return home, with appetite brisked up by a ten-mile walk, and plenty of food to satisfy it.
name
A surname from Middle English.
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Idioms & Phrases
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5As he rounded a hillock, he perceived that the roadway was now a crying mass of wagons, teams, and men.
WiktionaryWith the setting sun sending long shadows loping ahead of them over the smooth hillocks of the downs, they came up with the lagoon; a contentful return home, with appetite brisked up by a ten-mile wal
WiktionaryJust upstream of Dryburgh Abbey, a reproduction of a classical Greek temple stands at the top of a wooded hillock on the river’s north bank.
WiktionaryAnd Laban called it 'The witness heap'; and Jacob, 'The hillock of testimony': each of them according to the propriety of his language.
Tatoeba · #7829526I went to the top of the hillock and looked about me.
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