hill

noun

1. 1

   An elevated landmass smaller than a mountain.

   The park is sheltered from the wind by a hill to the east.

   So this was my future home, I thought![…]Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.

2. 2

   A sloping road.

   You need to pick up speed to get up the hill that's coming up.

3. 3

   A heap of earth surrounding a plant.

4. 4

   A single cluster or group of plants growing close together, and having the earth heaped up about them.

   a hill of corn or potatoes

5. 5

   The pitcher’s mound.

6. 6

   The raised portion of the surface of a vinyl record.

verb

1. 1

   To form into a heap or mound.

   Spread, heaped up, stacked with good things; and redolent of citrons and grapes, hilling round tall vases of wine;

2. 2

   To heap or draw earth around plants.

   After the seeds were inserted, the earth was hilled up all around into a smooth little mound.

Forms

plural

hills

past tense

hilled

past participle

hilled

present participle

hilling

third person singular

hills