hill
noun
a natural elevation of the earth's surface, smaller than a mountain.
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
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Dusty and weary, but in excellent spirits over the large space that he and the hired man had "hilled up," he went whistling home through the long shadows of the June evening.
From Without a Home by Edward Payson Roe