hill
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An elevated landmass smaller than a mountain.
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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.
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A sloping road.
You need to pick up speed to get up the hill that's coming up.
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A heap of earth surrounding a plant.
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A single cluster or group of plants growing close together, and having the earth heaped up about them.
a hill of corn or potatoes
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The pitcher’s mound.
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The raised portion of the surface of a vinyl record.
Étymologie
From Middle English hil (“hill”), from Old English hyll (“hill”), from Proto-West Germanic *hulli (“hill”), from Proto-Germanic *hulliz (“hill”), from Proto-Indo-European *kl̥Hnís (“top, hill, rock”) (compare also Proto-Germanic *halluz (“stone, rock”)). Cognate with Middle Dutch hille, hulle (“hill”), Low German hull (“hill”), Faroese hólur (“hill”), Icelandic and Old Norse hóll (“hill”), Norn hul (“hillock”), Norwegian hol (“low hillock”), Swedish kulle (“hill”), Catalan coll (“hill”), Italian colle (“hill”), Latin collis (“hill”), Lithuanian kalnas (“hill, mountain”), Albanian kallumë (“big pile, tall heap”), Russian холм (xolm, “hill”), Old English holm (“rising land, island”). More at holm.
verbe
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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;
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To heap or draw earth around plants.
After the seeds were inserted, the earth was hilled up all around into a smooth little mound.
Formes
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- 3ᵉ personne du singulier
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hill · An elevated landmass smaller than a mountain.
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