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Hummock

//ˈhʌmək// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A small hill; a hillock; a knoll.

    "The west edge of their landing area was swarming with…things. Like wolves or dogs, but with long necks, they moved quickly forward, darting from hummock to hummock"

  2. 2
    a small natural hill wordnet
  3. 3
    A ridge or hill of ice in an ice field.
  4. 4
    A fistful. Scotland

Etymology

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

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