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Small mountain slope
Answer for the clue "Small mountain slope ", 8 letters:
sidehill
Word definitions for sidehill in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context US English) The side or slope of a hill; a sloping descent.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sidehill \Side"hill`\, n. The side or slope of a hill; sloping ground; a descent. [U. S.]
Usage examples of sidehill.
Where the sidehill touched the water he dug up a shovelful of dirt and put it into the gold-pan.
The undulations in linksland provide a gently rolling landscape, with just enough movement to ask the golfer to play from sidehill, downhill, and uphill lies.
When we landed at its wooden dock we saw that it consisted of a few piles of lumber, a sprinkling of small cheap houses along a sidehill, a big hotel with a flag-staff, and a very peaceful looking arsenal.
John is built on a steep sidehill, from which it would be in danger of sliding off, if its houses were not mortised into the solid rock.
Then the officers went to march their separate bodies of troops into the sidehill streets, where they would remain invisible to the Sarmatian sentries, and there disposed the various columns in the order in which they would storm the city.
High on the right-hand slope of the gulch lay a notch, a little blind basin watered by the seepage from a sidehill spring, and there on the green bed of it a dozen cows with their calves grazed undisturbed.
Some distance from them a bare shale-slide extended for half a mile along a sidehill, barren and devoid of all vegetation.
Far off on the opposite side she made out a lone horseman riding at a full run along the sidehill above the cows as he made a supreme effort to reach the head of the run.
Papoose followed the paint-horse as Harris put Calico down the slippery sidehill and lifted him round the point of the herd.
Whatever, this particular piece of rough, sidehill timber and open meadow belonged to me.
I think the ones that are still anywhere near here are up beyond Sidehill, a small community to the west.
I drove Silvia up into the hills west of Stick Around and stopped to chat with Vernon Ingledew, who drew me a map: a detailed rendering of the various forks in the road, which ones to take, what landmarks to watch for, how to know where I was in my search for Sidehill and the Coe country.
He marked with a black X the most remote holler beyond Sidehill, with a crude trail leading up into it.
Cerberus found it for him easily enough, but it was a steep sidehill lie in the tall heather.
He knew that when the rain abated, the Sidehill Hoofer would be contentedly chewing her cud.