Hills Hoist

/ (hɪlz) /

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noun

trademark an Australian brand of rotary clothesline

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Word Origin for Hills Hoist

C20: named after its inventor, Lance Hills (1902-1986)

Words nearby Hills Hoist

hills, Hillsboro, Hillsborough, Hillsdale, Hill's equation, Hills Hoist , hillside, hillsite, Hill's sign, hill station, hilltop

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How to use Hills Hoist in a sentence

He first rose to prominence as a lawyer in Queens, who settled a boiling racial dispute over public housing in Forest Hills.
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Nestled in the hills are small market towns like Buleda, dominated by Baluch who make a living smuggling diesel and drugs.
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Three years ago, Republican Guard soldiers came into the hills and killed a cleric accused of hosting Jundullah fighters.
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“Gently rolling hills” roll not-so-gently under my tires, but the English countryside scenery is soporific.
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There'll be heaps uh fun in the Cypress Hills country when they get t' runnin' the whisky-jacks out.
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Why not have sought out the pure white lime-rocks of the flat country, or the grey granite of the hills?
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They didn't linger long at Benton, but got under way and marched overland to the Cypress Hills.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
The tops of the hills were laden with thunder-clouds, and the turbid atmosphere laboured with the stifling Sirocco.
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On a small scale map, in an office, you may make mole-hills of mountains; on the ground there's no escaping from its features.
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