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Flat-topped elevation
Answer for the clue "Flat-topped elevation ", 5 letters:
butte
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Word definitions for butte in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1805, American English, from French butte , from Old French but "mound, knoll" (see butt (n.3)). A French word introduced in Lewis & Clark's journals.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Above the buttes, the mile-high white clouds were as flat on the bottom as paperweights. ▪ Across the flat tableland are almost 100 red and orange monolithic sandstone buttes and mesas jutting skywards. ▪ Cactus-covered buttes ...
Usage examples of butte.
Yet even during the days she began to dread the open areas they sometimes came to, where the wind howled across miles of broken bushless rock and between the occasional butte or mesa.
Taller than the towers, the nacelles of the downed bird rose into view beyond the broken crest of a distant lava butte.
Another wonder of the route is Gunong Pondok, a huge butte or isolated mass of red and white limestone, much weather-stained and ore-stained with very brilliant colors, full of caverns, many of which are quite inaccessible, their entrances fringed with immense stalactites.
Gunong Pondok, the limestone butte, twelve hundred feet in nearly perpendicular height, showed all its brilliancy of color, and Gunong Bubu, one of the highest mountains in Perak, reared his granite crest above the forest.
The Riflers have treed them at Battle Butte, and Captain Rayner has gone with his battalion.
A red ink line had been drawn along the same hazardous trail Jessica and Ki had traveled from Uva to Eucher Butte, apparently indicating where an improved road was to be built.
Cependant je fus en butte a des vexations sans nombre et je me fis des amis, tant il est vrai que, dans les choses humaines, le bien est toujours mele au mal.
After the Wailer on the butte top, he was a welcome friend come visiting.
Garde Nationale, the Butte Montmartre, to demand the surrender of the artillery pieces that now studded it from top to bottom.
To the west, downstream, the sink curved out of sight around the base of a series of buttes like ancient battleships sailing in line ahead.
Ten to one, radio and telescreen signals would be transmitted to that from below, and then probably picked up and rebroadcast from a relay station on one or another of the high buttes in the neighborhood.
Butte yn ye season whenne ye mistletoe And holly hangeth hevye on ye bough, Ech wrytes to ech a lettere of gude cheere, To telle hys friende whatte hym befel thatte yeare.
In 1825 he showed up in Santa Fe, translating for the Ute, but most often he wandered the land between the two Plattes, wintering sometimes at the Laramie, sometimes at Rattlesnake Buttes.
Within an hour the yacht had met up with the USS Butte, a navy ammunition ship which took charge of the wounded Younis and set sail for the Balearic islands to meet up with the USS Saratoga and the S-3 plane which would take Younis to the United States.
She stood poised on the edge of the limitless plains, facing the benchland of tall grass with its hidden coulees and flat buttes.