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Definition of Hommocks
1. hommock [n] - See also: hommock
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hommocks
Literary usage of Hommocks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1894)
"Vide hommocks. ... hommocks [om-uks], sb. (i) An overgrown, slatternly girl.
N'hamp. (2) The feet. SE. Wore. ..."
2. The Exiles of Florida, Or, The Crimes Committed by Our Government Against by Joshua Reed Giddings (1858)
"But the allies were cautious; they passed from swamps, through hommocks, and over
prairies, constantly keeping too far in advance of our army to incur any ..."
3. Report on the Geology and Agriculture of the State of Mississippi by Eugene Woldemar Hilgard (1860)
"Thereafter, we meet with no more shell banks or hommocks, up to the mouth ...
An exception to the general character of the sand "hommocks" of this region. ..."
4. Biography and History of the Indians of North America: From Its First Discovery by Samuel Gardner Drake (1851)
"At about 3 miles from their camp, they fell upon a large Indian trail, which led
through two dense hommocks, and over two creeks, into а large field, ..."
5. The Book of the Indians; Or, Biography and History of the Indians of North by Samuel Gardner Drake (1841)
"At about 3 miles from their camp, they fell upon a large Indian trail, which led
through two dense hommocks, and over two creeks, into a large field, ..."
6. Where to Emigrate and why: Homes and Fortunes in the Boundless West and the by Frederick Bartlett Goddard (1869)
"... constitute the finest upland farms in the State, when the locality is free
from liability to wash. Between the bottom hommocks and the next bottom and ..."
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