hummock

[ huhm-uhk ]
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noun
  1. Also hammock. an elevated tract of land rising above the general level of a marshy region.

  2. a knoll or hillock.

  1. Also hommock. a ridge in an ice field.

Origin of hummock

1
1545–55; humm- (akin to hump) + -ock

Other words from hummock

  • hum·mock·y, adjective

Words Nearby hummock

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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. Ballantyne
  • We 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. Kingston
  • Hair-Face ran out on the quaking morass and gained the firmer footing of a grass-hummock a dozen yards away.

    Before Adam | Jack London
  • A hummock is a protuberance raised upon any plane of ice above the common level.

  • And 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

hummock

/ (ˈhʌmək) /


noun
  1. a hillock; knoll

  2. a ridge or mound of ice in an ice field

  1. Also called: hammock mainly Southern US a wooded area lying above the level of an adjacent marsh

Origin of hummock

1
C16: of uncertain origin; compare hump, hammock

Derived forms of hummock

  • hummocky, adjective

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