单词 | hillock |
释义 | hillockn. 1. A little hill. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > rising ground or eminence > [noun] > hillock barrowc885 burrowc885 berryc1000 knapc1000 knollc1000 ball1166 howa1340 toft1362 hillocka1382 tertre1480 knowec1505 hilleta1552 hummock1555 mountainettea1586 tump1589 butt1600 mountlet1610 mounture1614 colline1641 tuft1651 knock?17.. tummock1789 mound1791 tomhan1811 koppie1848 tuffet1877 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Jer. vi. 6 Delueth aboute Jerusalem an erthe hilloc. c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) ii. cxlv. 133 Toward an hullok. a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) i. ii. sig. A.viv Where as with a very feble faith and a faint, we shalbe scant hable to remoue a litle hillocke. 1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 521 The Ground easily swelling into little Hillocks. 1732 T. Lediard tr. J. Terrasson Life Sethos II. vii. 18 Upon..the plain..were a few verdant hillocks. 1884 Queen Victoria More Leaves 271 We got out and scrambled up a high hillock off the road. 2. A small mound or heap of earth, stones, or the like. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > rising ground or eminence > [noun] > small mound balkc885 bankc1175 hill1297 hillock1382 mow?1424 sunka1522 tump1589 anthill1598 pustule1651 mound1791 hag1805 moundlet1808 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Gen. xxxi. 51 Loo! this hillok [a1425 L.V. heep] and the stoon that I haue rerid bitwixe me and thee, witnes shal be; this hilloc and the stoon ben into witnessyng. a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1711) III. 92 The Partition of the Shire a Mile and more by Northe West from Simon's Bath at the Towres. The Toures be round Hillokkes of Yerth sette for Limites. 1791 W. Bartram Trav. N. & S. Carolina 126 I beheld a great number of hillocks or small pyramids, resembling hay-cocks,..I knew them to be the nests of the crocodile. 1875 C. Lyell & L. Lyell Princ. Geol. (ed. 12) II. iii. xlvii. 553 Just as the African sandwinds..raise a small hillock over the carcass of every dead camel exposed on the surface of the desert. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > protuberance or rounded projection > [noun] > a protuberance or protuberant part > a hump or lump bulchc1300 lump?a1500 hillock?1527 bump1533 hulch1611 hump1709 hunch1803 mump1847 nib1847 wodge1847 hummock1864 ?1527 L. Andrewe tr. Noble Lyfe Bestes sig. dj The Kamell is a lothly beste, and hathe an hyllocke vpon his backe. 1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 35 At the upper part of the drop..there usually was made some one or more little Hillocks or Prominences. 1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) i. ii. 3 To tell mens Fortunes from the Lines and Hillocks in their Hands. Derivatives ˈhillock v. (transitive) to raise into a hillock, to heap up. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > vertical extent > make high(er) [verb (transitive)] > raise in a mound hillock1791 mound1859 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in Iliad & Odyssey II. v. 589 The suff'ring Chief..occupying soon The middle space hillock'd it high with leaves. hillocked adj. /ˈhɪləkt/ ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > vertical extent > [adjective] > made high > raised as a hillock hillocked1805 1805 J. Grahame Sabbath (ed. 2) 84 Fill up the furrows 'tween the hillock'd graves. 1867 F. H. Ludlow Little Brother 91 On the pathless field of the hillocked sea. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1382 |
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