drumlinn.

Brit.

/ˈdrʌmlɪn/, U.S.

/ˈdrəmlən/

Origin: Apparently formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: drum n.², -ling suffix¹.

Etymology: Apparently < drum n.² + -lin, Scots variant of -ling suffix¹.

Geology and Physical Geography.

A long low hill or ridge chiefly composed of till which has been rounded and smoothed by past glacial action.Originally applied to landforms in Ireland.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > hill > [noun] > long or narrow

drum1732

drumlin1812

1812 J. Dubourdieu Statist. Surv. Antrim i. i. 24 These ridges are called drumlins.

1838 J. Scouler in Jrnl. Royal Geol. Soc. Dublin 1 273 These drumlins are very common in many parts of the country, and a very fine example of their nature occurs between Belfast and Lisburn.

1893 H. H. Howorth Glacial Nightmare II. xviii. 854 Sometimes..they are aggregated into lenticular mounds or drumlins.

1934 W. Power My Scotl. 44 Broad avenues leading up to the ‘drumlins’, or clay hills.

1984 Press-Courier (Oxnard, Calif.) 16 Feb. 22/8 The site was a drumlin, a glacial rubbish heap.

2005 New Yorker 28 Nov. 118/1 We were rolling over broad farmland almost startlingly flat, screened with hedgerows and blistered now and again with drumlins.

Compounds

General attributive, as drumlin belt, drumlin field, drumlin hill, etc.

ΚΠ

1898 Jrnl. Geogr. Soc. N.Y. 30 220 Near the southern margin of the drumlin belt they are exceedingly long and low ridges, the length being sometimes more than two miles.

1926 Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 34 205 At Badger Brook, 18 miles west of Grand Falls, very stony till forms a drumlin hill with a longer axis running about north and south.

1950 T. W. Freeman Ireland i. v. 90 The Brefni kingdom..straddled the west part of the great drumlin belt and the plateaus south of the Erne valley.

1989 S. Connaughton in D. Bolger Picador Bk. Contemp. Irish Fiction (1994) 126 As often as he could he escaped from the barracks to roam the drumlin fields or sit with the farmers.

1994 C. Paglia Vamps & Tramps 202 We lived in graduate student housing, a crowded complex of dilapidated army barracks spread on rolling drumlin hills.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	drumlin
释义	drumlinn. Brit. /ˈdrʌmlɪn/, U.S. /ˈdrəmlən/ Origin: Apparently formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: drum n.², -ling suffix¹. Etymology: Apparently < drum n.² + -lin, Scots variant of -ling suffix¹. Geology and Physical Geography. A long low hill or ridge chiefly composed of till which has been rounded and smoothed by past glacial action.Originally applied to landforms in Ireland. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > hill > [noun] > long or narrow drum1732 drumlin1812 1812 J. Dubourdieu Statist. Surv. Antrim i. i. 24 These ridges are called drumlins. 1838 J. Scouler in Jrnl. Royal Geol. Soc. Dublin 1 273 These drumlins are very common in many parts of the country, and a very fine example of their nature occurs between Belfast and Lisburn. 1893 H. H. Howorth Glacial Nightmare II. xviii. 854 Sometimes..they are aggregated into lenticular mounds or drumlins. 1934 W. Power My Scotl. 44 Broad avenues leading up to the ‘drumlins’, or clay hills. 1984 Press-Courier (Oxnard, Calif.) 16 Feb. 22/8 The site was a drumlin, a glacial rubbish heap. 2005 New Yorker 28 Nov. 118/1 We were rolling over broad farmland almost startlingly flat, screened with hedgerows and blistered now and again with drumlins. Compounds General attributive, as drumlin belt, drumlin field, drumlin hill, etc. ΚΠ 1898 Jrnl. Geogr. Soc. N.Y. 30 220 Near the southern margin of the drumlin belt they are exceedingly long and low ridges, the length being sometimes more than two miles. 1926 Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 34 205 At Badger Brook, 18 miles west of Grand Falls, very stony till forms a drumlin hill with a longer axis running about north and south. 1950 T. W. Freeman Ireland i. v. 90 The Brefni kingdom..straddled the west part of the great drumlin belt and the plateaus south of the Erne valley. 1989 S. Connaughton in D. Bolger Picador Bk. Contemp. Irish Fiction (1994) 126 As often as he could he escaped from the barracks to roam the drumlin fields or sit with the farmers. 1994 C. Paglia Vamps & Tramps 202 We lived in graduate student housing, a crowded complex of dilapidated army barracks spread on rolling drumlin hills. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1812
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