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Definition of Hummocks
1. hummock [v] - See also: hummock
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hummocks
Literary usage of Hummocks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Census Reports Tenth Census. June 1, 1880 by Francis Amasa Walker, Charles Williams Seaton, Henry Gannett (1884)
"The clay or loam which underlies the stiff, heavy hummocks, such as have been
described under Marion county, is of a darker color, and less sandy than is ..."
2. The Great Frozen Sea: A Personal Narrative of the Voyage of the "Alert by Albert Hastings Markham (1894)
"No improvement in our travelling—still the same old story—hummocks and snow-drifts,
snow-drifts and hummocks. So dense were the latter that, when we halted ..."
3. Narrative of an Expedition to the Polar Sea in the Years 1820, 1821, 1822 by Ferdinand Petrovich Wrangel, Edward Sabine (1842)
"Four Pillar Island.—Ice broken up and covered with Sea-Water.— hummocks.—Deposite
of Provisions.—State of the Ice.— Easter.—White Bears.—The Bear Islands. ..."
4. The Polar World: A Popular Description of Man and Nature in the Arctic and by Georg Hartwig (1869)
"... but in general it is covered with numberless ice-blocks or hummocks piled upon
each other in wild con- AMONG hummocks. fusion to a height of forty or ..."
5. The Polar and Tropical Worlds: A Description of Man and Nature in the Polar by Georg Hartwig (1872)
"... but in general it is covered with numberless ice-blocks or hummocks piled upon
each other in wild con- AMONG hummocks. fusion to a height of forty or ..."
6. Journal of a Voyage to Greenland, in the Year 1821: With Graphic Illustrations by George William Manby (1823)
"... from behind one of the large hummocks that were resting upon the margin of
the ice. I instantly seized my gun, jumped into a boat with its crew, ..."
7. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1910)
"All minor hummocks and ridges of this nature are included under the general term
sastrugi (see Fig. 31). The student may learn much concerning their form ..."
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