The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ant-hill \Ant"-hill\, n. (Zo["o]l.) A mound thrown up by ants or by termites in forming their nests.
Wiktionary
alt. A mound-shaped nest built or inhabited by ants or termites. n. A mound-shaped nest built or inhabited by ants or termites.
Usage examples of "ant-hill".
At the distance it looked like an ant-hill, and as I was dropping off to sleep I fell to wondering what it could be.
In accordance with what seemed a preconcerted plan, they were carried off from the ant-hill with brutal violence, in two parties, without the chance of a farewell word or sign.
And, as will further be seen in connection with the land-shark plague, the conditions of life under cacique rule would kill thrift in an ant-hill.
The moon is, indeed, a sort of vast ant-hill, only, instead of there being only four or five sorts of ant, there are many hundred different sorts of Selenite, and almost every gradation between one sort and another.
Staring dumbly out at the toiling sweltering human ant-hill Comus marvelled how missionary enthusiasts could labour hopefully at the work of transplanting their religion, with its homegrown accretions of fatherly parochial benevolence, in this heat-blistered, feverscourged wilderness, where men lived like groundbait and died like flies.
The rippling column swung into the level - carts behind it divided left and right, ran about like an ant-hill, and .