hommock
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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When we would wake up, after a short nap, every old log and hommock about us would be covered with 'gators.'
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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.
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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.
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On this island grew a thick grove of evergreen trees—palms, live-oaks, and magnolias—in short, a hommock.
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There was no other resource than to dislodge them from the hommock—to drive them forth at the bayonet’s point—at least this was the design that now suggested itself to the commander-in-chief.
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