HILLOCK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hillock mean? 

• HILLOCK (noun)
  The noun HILLOCK has 1 sense:

1. a small natural hill

  Familiarity information: HILLOCK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HILLOCK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small natural hill

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

hammock; hillock; hummock; knoll; mound

Hypernyms ("hillock" is a kind of...):

hill (a local and well-defined elevation of the land)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hillock"):

anthill; formicary (a mound of earth made by ants as they dig their nest)

kopje; koppie (a small hill rising up from the African veld)

molehill (a mound of earth made by moles while burrowing)

 Context examples 

Thus Chanticleer was left alone with his dead Partlet; and having dug a grave for her, he laid her in it, and made a little hillock over her.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

I remember something, too, of the green grave-mounds; and I have not forgotten, either, two figures of strangers straying amongst the low hillocks and reading the mementoes graven on the few mossy head-stones.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Hillocks grow into hills, and hills into mountains, each range overlying its neighbor, until they soar up in the giant chain which raises its spotless and untrodden peaks, white and dazzling, against the pale blue wintry sky.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I walked towards the north-east coast, over against Blefuscu, where, lying down behind a hillock, I took out my small perspective glass, and viewed the enemy’s fleet at anchor, consisting of about fifty men of war, and a great number of transports: I then came back to my house, and gave orders (for which I had a warrant) for a great quantity of the strongest cable and bars of iron. The cable was about as thick as packthread and the bars of the length and size of a knitting-needle.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Ham carrying me on his back and a small box of ours under his arm, and Peggotty carrying another small box of ours, we turned down lanes bestrewn with bits of chips and little hillocks of sand, and went past gas-works, rope-walks, boat-builders' yards, shipwrights' yards, ship-breakers' yards, caulkers' yards, riggers' lofts, smiths' forges, and a great litter of such places, until we came out upon the dull waste I had already seen at a distance; when Ham said, Yon's our house, Mas'r Davy!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Leaving the thumbless archer and his brood, the wayfarers struck through the scattered huts of Emery Down, and out on to the broad rolling heath covered deep in ferns and in heather, where droves of the half-wild black forest pigs were rooting about amongst the hillocks.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)