hummock

as inknoll
as indune
as inhill
as inhillock
as inhump

Synonyms for hummock

noun small hill

Antonyms for hummock

Word Origin & History

"knoll, hillock," 1550s, originally nautical, "conical small hill on a seacoast," of obscure origin, though second element is diminutive suffix -ock. In Florida, where the local form is hammock, it means a clump of hardwood trees on a knoll in a swamp or on a key.

Example Sentences for hummock

There it is to your hand, if I am not much mistaken, said Johnson, pointing to a hummock close by.

The doctor soon reached the hummock which concealed Johnson.

The greatness of other men is a hummock, over which we can still leap.

He perceived that he had misjudged the height of the hummock.

Getting clear of the hummock, we were now in more open ground.

Just outside the hummock was a cabbage-palm, which, as I have said, abounds in Florida.

Again they visited the top of the hummock, but still no sail was to be seen.

Their hut and the hummock, near which it had been built, quickly disappeared.

We live at the edge of the hummock, and see many kinds of birds and flowers.

Now and then he found a hummock, but there were times when he sank to the knee in clinging goo.

hummock

Synonyms for hummock

Antonyms for hummock

More words related to hummock

dune

hill

hillock

hills

hump

knoll