What is "hummocks"

Usage examples of "hummocks".

This stretch of ice was -- with the exception of a few quite small hummocks of the shape of haycocks -- perfectly flat and free from crevasses.

His position was even stronger than before: rising ground sheltered from flank assaults by hummocks of broken rock.

Then, following a sudden impulse, he turned and cut off across the sand hummocks, skirting around inland, but keeping pretty close to the shore, his object being to spy upon them, and to watch what they were about from the back of the low sand hills that fronted the beach.

Going down to the sea-ice we had to pass through a number of big hummocks -- a fairly rough surface.

That we were not quite out of the dangerous zone was shown by a number of small hummocks to the south of us.

When we came into the vicinity of the line of hummocks that lay in our course, we stopped and Page 14 Amundsen, Ronald - The South Pole, Vol.

Their white garb made them seem no more than ice-covered stones or frosted hummocks under the moon, which had now begun to drift from behind the clouds.