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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
hillock
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Climb the hillock which lies ahead.
▪ Given better fortune, shots that bounced off hillocks and into bunkers might have bounced on to greens.
▪ Its boiling substance sprayed across the dune beyond, lacquering the metallic hillock.
▪ Some make hillocks thirty feet across, while others are happy with mounds of grass clippings.
▪ Spurred on by a new hope, she ran across the road and scrambled up the smooth grassy side of the hillock.
▪ The pyre stood ready on a hillock.
▪ We may raise again the hillocks and dig the vales.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hillock

Hillock \Hill"ock\, n. A small hill.
--Shak.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
hillock

late 14c., hilloc "small hill" (c.1200 as a surname), from hill + Middle English diminutive suffix -oc.

Wiktionary
hillock

n. a small hill

WordNet
hillock

n. a small natural hill [syn: knoll, mound, hummock, hammock]

Wikipedia
Hillock

A hillock or knoll is a small hill, usually separated from a larger group of hills such as a range. Hillocks are similar in their distribution and size to small mesas or buttes. The term is largely a British one. This particular formation occurs often in Great Britain and China. One of the most famous knolls is the one near John F. Kennedy's point of assassination, the Grassy Knoll. A "Blind Knoll" is either hidden or not readily apparent to those driving vehicles. There are road signs that warn of this, advising drivers to slow down.

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Usage examples of "hillock".

As soon as she had done so, Maude strapped her wrists to the front legs of the apparatus, whilst Alice made her slim ankles fast to the other legs, thus spread-eagling her startlingly jutting, white, twitching bottom out and up in the most lascivious way, so that the secret ambery crease between the naked hillocks was lewdly distended and every portion of her private anatomy exposed not only to the gaze of her executioner but also to the searching tips of the slender withes of the fresh new rod which Maude now handed her chum with sparkling eyes.

The workmen placed the flowers and wreaths upon the mound and about it, and Bibbs altered the position of one or two of these, then stood looking thoughtfully at the grotesque brilliancy of that festalseeming hillock beneath the darkening November sky.

Far beneath in the valley was a small river tortuously flowing along a bouldery bed amid hillocks of old moraines which were like waves of a sea of grass-clad earth.

Above all those beauties, I could see the shape of two globes which Apelles would have taken for the model of those of his lovely Venus, and the rapid, inequal movement of which proved to me that those ravishing hillocks were animated.

Weetzie came to a broad plain where there was a gobble-mole druggling tunnels, coming up with a snoutful of dirt and heaving it into little hillocks.

In the middle of the next afternoon they couched the camels in the lengthening shadow of a small volcanic hillock and fed them on the fodder they had cut on the riverbank.

Once, when the wind shifted slightly, she thought she saw the figure of a girl gambolling amid the falling snow on a hillock a short distance away.

Mounted on the young horse, he galloped after the mare along the long range of the pikes, in and out of their deep cavernous alcoves, up and down their hillocks and hollows, over bowlders, over streams, across ghylls, through sinking sloughs and with a drizzling rain overhead.

His fighting chieftains each sought advantage of the best ground possible-a knoll or hillock, or a hedgy place of concealment, with their warriors ranged about them, shields of tanned hide sheltering their bodies, spears and axes and bows at the ready.

The kibab cook makes a conical hillock of dust and ashes, flattened on the top.

The kibitka advanced but slowly, now raised on a hillock, now descending into a hollow, swaying from side like a boat on a stormy sea.

She started walking down the road, over hillocks of buried rubble, around snags of wall jutting up out of the loess, past buildings still standing, some of them already breached and explored, and across the brush-grown flat to the huts.

Only when he crested the rise did he think that the navvy might have been with the Mantis, and when the idea struck him he let his momentum carry him down into a sheltering hillock of soft grass.

Only when the last of them was resting far down the hillock would he allow himself to be lowered from his place, leaving Pawl Raikuh to see to the dead Freefighters and bundles of loot.

Camilla, who, mounting a little hillock of stones, presently perceived that the lady was reading a letter.