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hilling

  • present participle
    of hill.
    hill
    noun
    a natural elevation of the earth's surface, smaller than a mountain.

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That hilling up promotes leeks with longer white shanks.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 31, 2024

Prevailing industry practices often involve the concentrated application of fertilizers during the planting or hilling phases, particularly in Atlantic Canada.

From Salon ● Nov. 28, 2023

He mentions that the Potawatomi word for “hill” is a verb: “Hills are always in the process of hilling, they are actively being hills.”

From New York Times ● May 27, 2020

On an afternoon in March, Loïc Gouzer, a specialist in contemporary art at Christie’s New York, attended a hilling session to survey several works that had been secured for an upcoming auction.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 27, 2016

Formerly a great deal of useless labor was spent in hilling up corn; in dry seasons this was worse than useless.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by P. L. Simmonds