hommock

American  

[hom-uhk] / ˈhɒm ək /

noun

1. hummock.

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Example Sentences

Outside the hommock extended the fields under cultivation, until bounded in the distance by tall forests of cypress and white cedar—a sort of impenetrable morass that covered the country for miles beyond.

From Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land by Reid, Mayne

This path would conduct me by the hommock, the bathing-pond, and the orange-groves, without much danger of my approach being noticed by any one.

From Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land by Reid, Mayne

When we would wake up, after a short nap, every old log and hommock about us would be covered with 'gators.'

From Capturing a Locomotive A History of Secrect Service in the Late War. by Pittenger, William

There stretched the savanna; beyond it the home-fields of indigo and maize; beyond these the dark wood-knoll of the hommock; but beyond this last there was nothing—nothing I could recognise.

From Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land by Reid, Mayne

We waded about in the water, tall grass and cane, and after a while found a little mound or hommock, which projected above the water, and on which we perched ourselves for the night.

From Capturing a Locomotive A History of Secrect Service in the Late War. by Pittenger, William