Meaning

3 senses
  1. A small hill; a hillock; a knoll.

    a small natural hill

  2. A ridge or hill of ice in an ice field.

    Eishügel

    торосtoros

  3. (Scotland)A fistful.

Translations

4 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
ridge or hill of ice:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
ridge or hill of ice:

Origin

Unknown, but probably a diminutive of hump, equivalent to hump + -ock (diminutive suffix).

Unknown, but probably a diminutive of hump, equivalent to hump + -ock (diminutive suffix). Compare hillock.

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Forms

plural: hummocks
Singularhummock
Pluralhummocks

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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