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Hummock   Listen
noun
Hummock  n.  
1.
A rounded knoll or hillock; a rise of ground of no great extent, above a level surface.
2.
A ridge or pile of ice on an ice field.
3.
Timbered land. See Hammock. (Southern U.S.)





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"Hummock" Quotes from Famous Books



... fathoms, and still no land to be seen. The greatest depth was on an oose bottom, the least a coarse yellow sand. About nine o'clock we espied land, bearing N.E. about 8 leagues distant, being a round hummock of middling height. By noon we were in latitude 7 deg. 56' N. having steered all day east, sometimes half a point north or south, as our water deepened or shoaled, for we would sometimes have ten fathoms or more one cast, and the next seven fathoms, the ground being full of pits, believing ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. VIII. • Robert Kerr
... nest upon the ground, or a hummock, a stump, a buoy, a chimney—upon anything near the water that offers an adequate platform; but its choice is the dead top of some lofty tree where the pathway for its wide wings is open and the vision range ...
— Roof and Meadow • Dallas Lore Sharp
... rocks that lie in your path. It will take time to pick your way over boggy places where the water oozes up through the thin, loamy soil as through a sponge; and experience alone will teach you which hummock of grass or moss will make a safe stepping-place and will not sink beneath your weight and soak your feet with hidden water. Do not scorn to learn all you can about the trail you are to take, although your ...
— On the Trail - An Outdoor Book for Girls • Lina Beard and Adelia Belle Beard
... this time. Reddy Fox had no more than picked himself up when the barrel was half way down the hill and going faster and faster. It bounced along over the ground, and every time it hit a little hummock it seemed to jump right up in the air. And all the time it was making the strangest noises. Reddy quite forgot the smarting sore places where he had bumped into the barrel. He simply stood and stared ...
— The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk • Thornton W. Burgess
... The stony walls of the knoll, curving inward and sheltering a thick growth of ferns and scrubby vegetation, closed in the bridal chamber. Creepers festooned the rocky ledges and crevices. Here and there, a young sapling slanted forward to greet the morning sun when it should rise behind the hummock. ...
— Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land • Rosa Praed


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