hummock
Origin of hummock
1Other words from hummock
- hum·mock·y, adjective
Words Nearby hummock
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2024
How to use hummock in a sentence
The thought seemed to produce the dreaded object, for next moment a large hummock appeared right ahead.
The Giant of the North | R.M. BallantyneWe had to cross what is called a hummock, which was in reality a depression, but not low enough to be swampy.
In the Wilds of Florida | W.H.G. KingstonHair-Face ran out on the quaking morass and gained the firmer footing of a grass-hummock a dozen yards away.
Before Adam | Jack LondonA hummock is a protuberance raised upon any plane of ice above the common level.
The Book of Curiosities | I. PlattsAnd then, when we had cautiously rounded a hummock at the top, my steel helmet was blown off—not by a shrapnel, but by the wind!
A Traveller in War-Time | Winston Churchill
British Dictionary definitions for hummock
/ (ˈhʌmək) /
a hillock; knoll
a ridge or mound of ice in an ice field
Also called: hammock mainly Southern US a wooded area lying above the level of an adjacent marsh
Origin of hummock
1Derived forms of hummock
- hummocky, adjective
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Browse