What is "steepish"

Usage examples of "steepish".

Alastair led the way from the hut up a steepish hill, sparsely wooded with scrub oak, in the hope of finding a view-point.

In front of his line were two hundred yards of open killing ground after which the land fell into a steepish gully that angled away eastwards.

The es-sential point was that between them ran a steepish track, path-way, lane, whatever.

And now, over a rise, there was a church spire, the clustered houses of a small village at the bottom of a steepish hill, the snake sign of another S-bend.

Es City, rather steepish ramps which had a landing at each level of the buildings and then ran as a level way from each side of that central rise.

The Residency is on a steepish hill in the middle of an open valley, partially cleared and much defaced by tin diggings.

I was choked, bruised, stifled, and presently found myself being hauled out of a ditch by three men, and realised that the horse had tumbled down in going down a steepish hill, and that I had gone over his head.

Scott was surprised to see a big group of people lined up waiting at the top of a steepish earth mound, there were about forty or fifty of them.

They were on top of a steepish hill, the road winding away, lined with a dark mass of pines.

At a pace which forced me to run hard, we climbed a steepish slope, till ahead of us we saw the bald green crown of the meadowlands.

Beyond the stables the ground fell away down a steepish grassy slope into a wooded area.

Mungo went up the steps from the river, crossing the place where that girl had been strangled, up Bread Lane this time, the steepish hill that wound between high brick walls with broken glass on top.

I came up a steepish ramp through thinning pines, and emerged at once from the shade of the gorge, onto an open plateau perhaps half a mile in width, and two or three hundred yards deep, like a wide ledge on the mountainside.

The short, steepish slope up to the hotel entrance looked different at night: the landscaping into miniature terraces was dramatised by lighting cunningly placed at ground level.

She is carrying her shoes, as though she wants to wade: not very clever, since the tide is high and the wind has kicked up steepish rollers.