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A mound of glacial drift
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drumlin
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n. (context geography English) An elongated hill or ridge of glacial drift.
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A drumlin , from the Irish word droimnín ("littlest ridge"), first recorded in 1833, and in the classical sense is an elongated hill in the shape of an inverted spoon or half-buried egg formed by glacial ice acting on underlying unconsolidated till or ground ...
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n. a mound of glacial drift
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1833, diminutive of drum (1725) "ridge or long, narrow hill," often separating two parallel valleys, from Gaelic and Irish druim "back, ridge."
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Drumlin \Drum"lin\, n. [Gael. druim the ridge of a hill.] (Geol.) A hill of compact, unstratified, glacial drift or till, usually elongate or oval, with the larger axis parallel to the former local glacial motion.
Usage examples of drumlin.
On several occasions, it had seemed that a way out of these huge accumulations of earth matter could not be found, that the geological puzzle was insoluble, the chthonian arrangement of discord irresolvable: and then vale and drumlin created between them a new direction, a surprise, an escape, and the way took fresh heart and plunged recklessly still deeper into the encompassing upheaval.
All these drumlins and kames contain a certain amount of gold, scraped off the outcrop in the ice age.
She stared out the side window at the drumlins, the hedges, the tight and secret fields.
It ended on the rim of a wide and shallow valley edged on its farther side with broken hills, drumlins that scattered in a hundred directions, the gulches between all wide and deep enough to hide a raiding party.
To the east the lights of Rossaboe were hidden behind the drumlins of these outer edges of the Burren.
At this time of year I'd head towards the setting sun until I left the mountains and reached the alluvial plain where you'll see evidence of drumlins and some quite fine examples of obviously erratic boulders.
Or perhaps, der Heer had gone on, sensing her displeasure, Drumlin had been thrown into the air by the concussion of the erbium hitting the staging surface.
She had, after all, been the person closest to Drumlin when the erbium dowel struck and pulped him.
Every foot of the landscape from here on north would be scored and scarred with reminders of glaciation—scattered boulders called erratics, drumlins, eskers, high tarns, cirques.
Every foot of the landscape from here on north would be scored and scarred with reminders of glaciation-- scattered boulders called erratics, drumlins, eskers, high tarns, cirques.
Drumlin, like many others she had known over the years, had called her an incurable romantic.
David Drumlin gave an extraordinarily capable discussion of a statistical analysis he had recently performed of all previous pages of the Message that referred to the new numbered diagrams.