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hill-side
The lateral slope of a hill.
a1400Arthur 369 He went ouer to þe hulle syde. 1509Hawes Past. Pleas. xxvii. lxiv, We lyght adowne, under an hyll syde. 1644Milton Educ. Wks. (1847) 99/2, I shall..conduct you to a hill-side, where I will point you out the right path of a virtuous and noble Education. 1810Scott Lady of L. v. x, The next [breath of wind] but swept a lone hill-side Where heath and fern were waving wide.
attrib.1859W. Collins Q. of Hearts (1875) 4 Assembled together in our hill-side retreat. 1890Daily News 20 Dec. 5/6 The name ‘Hillside men’..applied to the Fenians.
Hence hillˈsider.
1898Daily News 22 Mar. 3/5 To object to any money being given to a poor hillsider. |