Lexicographical Neighbors of Hummocked
Literary usage of Hummocked
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917 by Ernest Henry Shackleton (1920)
"Heavy but not necessarily hummocked ice, with generally a deep snow covering,
... An area of ice, level or hummocked, whose limits are within sight. ..."
2. The Popular Science Monthly (1889)
"Early in summer it breaks up and floats away in immense floes as pack ice;
sometimes, through pressure, becoming hummocked or piled in thicknesses of three ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1867)
"But our convent-yard was a hard old floe, scarce better than the hummocked barrier."
Under these adverse circumstances, the disabled men were sent back to ..."
4. The Voyage of the 'Discovery' by Robert Falcon Scott (1905)
"abundantly clear that the difficulties are far more formidable than are found on
anything but the most hummocked sea-ice. Turning now to the South, ..."
5. Scott's Last Expedition ...: Vol. I. Being the Journals of Captain R. F by Robert Falcon Scott, Leonard Huxley (1913)
"We have found the ice comparatively thin, the floes 2 3 feet in thickness except
where hummocked; amongst them ar large sheets from 6 inches to i foot in ..."
6. Transactions by Thomas Southwell, Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society (1884)
"Eilan Whirry is not hummocked at all. The two first-named islands form with one
another almost a right-angle on the west. An ice sheet which had passed ..."
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