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Hummock   Listen
noun
Hummock  n.  
1.
A rounded knoll or hillock; a rise of ground of no great extent, above a level surface.
2.
A ridge or pile of ice on an ice field.
3.
Timbered land. See Hammock. (Southern U.S.)





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"Hummock" Quotes from Famous Books



... sledge and dogs disappear as if into an abyss. In an instant he had begun a mad race to the shore a hundred feet ahead of him. Ten paces more and he would have reached it, when the toe of his snow-shoe caught in a hummock of snow and ice. For a flash it stopped him, and the moment's pause was fatal. Before he could throw himself forward on his face in a last effort to save himself, the ice gave way and he plunged through. ...
— Philip Steele of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police • James Oliver Curwood
... happened one day, as afar He roved on the glistening strand, That he chanced on a curious jar, Which lay on a hummock of sand. It was closed at the mouth with a cork and a seal, And over the top there was tied A cloth, and the fisherman couldn't but feel That he ought to ...
— Grimm Tales Made Gay • Guy Wetmore Carryl
... shrug of his shoulders he stirred up the dogs with a crack of his whip and struck out at their head due west. During the next half hour Philip's eyes and ears were ceaselessly on the alert. He traveled close to Blake, with the big Colt in his hand, watching every hummock and bit of cover as they came to it. He also watched Blake and in the end was convinced that in the back of the outlaw's head was a sinister scheme in which he had the utmost confidence in spite of his threats and the fact that ...
— The Golden Snare • James Oliver Curwood
... in the north cache; you can find it by the trend of the east hummock, ten fathoms south of the black crag ...
— Treasure Island • Robert Louis Stevenson
... as then, with their prairie-like vistas and grassy patches in every direction, and the 'kill-calf' and herds of cattle and sheep. Then the South Bay and shores and the salt meadows, and the sedgy smell, and numberless little bayous and hummock-islands in the waters, the habitat of every sort of fish and aquatic fowl of North America. And the bay men—a strong, wild, peculiar race—now extinct, or rather entirely changed. And the beach outside the sandy bars, sometimes many miles at a stretch, with their old history of wrecks and ...
— Complete Prose Works - Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy • Walt Whitman


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