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hillock, n.|ˈhɪlək|
[f. hill n. + -ock.]
1. A little hill.
1382Wyclif Jer. vi. 6 Delueth aboute Jerusalem an erthe hilloc. 1529More Comf. agst. Trib. i. Wks. 1143/2 Where as with a verye fieble fayth & a faynte, we shall be scant hable to remoue a lyttle hillocke. 1665Manley Grotius' Low C. Warres 521 The Ground easily swelling into little Hillocks. 1732T. Lediard Sethos II. vii. 18 Upon..the plain..were a few verdant hillocks. 1884Queen Victoria More Leaves 271 We got out and scrambled up a high hillock off the road.
2. A small mound or heap of earth, stones, or the like.
1382Wyclif Gen. xxxi. 51 Loo! this hillok [1388 heep] and the stoon that I haue rerid bitwixe me and thee, witnes shal be; this hilloc and the stoon ben into witnessyng. 1538Leland Itin. III. 129 The Partition of the Shire a Mile and more by Northe West from Simon's Bathe at the Towres. These Towres be round Hillokkes of Yerth sette for Limites. 1791W. Bartram Carolina 126, I beheld a great number of hillocks or small pyramids, resembling hay-cocks,..I knew them to be the nests of the crocodile. 1875Lyell's Princ. Geol. (ed. 12) II. iii. xlvii. 553 Just as the African sandwinds..raise a small hillock over the carcass of every dead camel exposed on the surface of the desert.
†3. A hump, bump, protuberance, or prominence on any surface. Obs.
c1520Andrew Noble Lyfe d j, The Kamell is a lothly beste, and hathe an hyllocke vpon his backe. 1665Hooke Microgr. 35 At the upper part of the drop..there usually was made some one or more little Hillocks or Prominences. 1668Culpepper & Cole Barthol. Anat. i. ii. 3 To tell mens Fortunes from the Lines and Hillocks in their Hands.
Hence ˈhillock v. trans., to raise into a hillock, to heap up; hillocked |ˈhɪləkt| ppl. a.
1791Cowper Odyss. v. 589 The suff'ring Chief..occupying soon The middle space hillock'd it high with leaves. 1804J. Grahame Sabbath (1839) 19/1 Fill up the furrows 'tween the hillock'd graves. 1867F. H. Ludlow Little Brother 91 On the pathless field of the hillocked sea. |
