Definition of hillock
: a small hill
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Beyond the river is the golf course, which stretches into acres of neat hillocks and ponds.
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In Parkland, Anishka Milleret pushed a wheelchair through the grass and up and down the small hillocks at Pine Trail Park.
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Entrance For Israeli Citizens Is Forbidden’ Ahed Tamimi has long been filmed and photographed protesting and confronting soldiers in Nabi Saleh, a cluster of buildings on a couple of hillocks in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
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The crispy chicken comes next to a hillock of apple-cabbage slaw that’s a little on the bitter side.
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The best seats are the ones that hug the open kitchen, where the chefs boil, sauté, and grate hillocks of Parmesan with mesmerizing coordination.
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The hillocks that existed back in Yokut Indian days were flattened by a hunk of metal called the Fresno Scraper.
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The technique for dealing with whoops is as follows: punch the gas up the micro-hillock to lift the front; let off to let the car float down the other side.
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As he was carried on a stretcher down the hillock of debris, rescuers and spectators broke into cheers and applause.
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First Known Use of hillock
14th century
Other Geology Terms
anthracite, boulder, cwm, erratic, igneous, intrusive, mesa, sedimentary, silt, swale
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