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Hill   /hɪl/   Listen
Hill

noun
1.
A local and well-defined elevation of the land.
2.
Structure consisting of an artificial heap or bank usually of earth or stones.  Synonym: mound.
3.
United States railroad tycoon (1838-1916).  Synonyms: J. J. Hill, James Jerome Hill.
4.
Risque English comedian (1925-1992).  Synonyms: Alfred Hawthorne, Benny Hill.
5.
(baseball) the slight elevation on which the pitcher stands.  Synonyms: mound, pitcher's mound.
verb
(past & past part. hilled; pres. part. hilling)
1.
Form into a hill.



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"Hill" Quotes from Famous Books



... there, Jo came up the hill with a bundle in his arms. Charley watched him for a moment, half whimsically, half curiously. Yet he sighed once too as Portugais opened the door and came into the room. "Well done, Jo!" said he. ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

... path, but their bold bearing and the pistols in their belts always gave them the road. Brigands flourished amid the frequent revolutions, and the humbler Mexicans found it wise to attend strictly to their own business. They slept again in the open, but this time on a hill in a dense thicket. They had previously drunk at a spring at its base, and lacking now for neither food nor water they felt ...
— The Texan Star - The Story of a Great Fight for Liberty • Joseph A. Altsheler

... persist in Brighton. The village is quaint and simple (particularly so after the last 'bus is stabled), but it is valuable rather as the key to some of the finest solitudes of the Downs, in the great uninhabited hill district between the Race Course at Brighton and Newhaven, between Lewes and the sea, than for any merits of its own. One other claim has it, however, on the notice of the pilgrim: William Black lies ...
— Highways & Byways in Sussex • E.V. Lucas

... particular expected "them poor Hayneses" to keep bright or "chirk up." As far back as he could remember, Luke had realized that the hand of God was laid on his family. Dragging his bad leg up the hill pastures after the cow, day in and day out, he had evolved a sort of patient philosophy about it. It was just inevitable, like a lot of things known in that rock-ribbed and fatalistic region—as immutably decreed by heaven as foreordination ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1917 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various

... Cold that he got under your Window one Night in a Serenade. I was that unfortunate young Fellow, whom you were then so cruel to. Not long after my shifting that unlucky Body, I found myself upon a Hill in AEthiopia, where I lived in my present Grotesque Shape, till I was caught by a Servant of the English Factory, and sent over into Great Britain: I need not inform you how I came into your Hands. You see, Madam, this is not the first ...
— The Spectator, Volume 2. • Addison and Steele


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