What is "humps"

Usage examples of "humps".

We’re not actually aground on it, but it sometimes humps up enough to push on the keels, and it’ll drag on them if we’re sailing.

It was easier to go around the humps than over them, however, and this quickly put the men out of sight from below.

There had also been enough thunderstorms and waterspouts to confirm the notion that these could be responsible for rounding off the berg’s humps and projections.

Sand blown onto the shore accumulated over the years and settled into various formations - mainly dunes, but also the plateaus and humps so characteristic of linksland.

How do you get the ball on the green with that dip and those humps in front?

The shifting sands add or subtract from the humps and hollows, knobs and crests, that make up the turbulent ground.

Golf at a links is all about how the player deals with the humps and bumps and rises and falls in the land.

If golf at a links is all about how the player deals with the humps and bumps and rises and falls in the land, it follows that a golfer/geologist might have a deep interest in such an environment.

The worn, overgrown stone humps were in such sharp contrast to those towering windowless, doorless spears of buildings that it somehow triggered uneasiness.

For one of those humps which they had taken for outcrops of the ice moved.

The other cormorants, which were strung out in a line behind the leading bird, looked in the poor light and at first glance just like the body or humps of the Monster, as it has been described by various witnesses.

But no one has yet proposed a satisfactory solution to the traditional sea monster with horse's head and humps, which has been seen by seamen and shore watches all over the world and seems as common as ever.

Ratto said: 'There were three bends like humps and they rose straight up.

Except for the humps of rubble marking the buried modules of the base and the angular metal framework of the oxygen plant off to the right.

Peering over the front of his tractor, Paul could see the cluster of humps in the crater's floor that marked the buried shelters of Moonbase.