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Definition of Sidehills
1. sidehill [n] - See also: sidehill
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sidehills
Literary usage of Sidehills
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report on the Goldfields of the Klondike by Arthur Newton Christian Treadgold (1899)
"Unquestionably it would pay well to wash the face of all the sidehills with water
brought in from a distance (they have none of their own) by hydraulic ..."
2. Soils and Soil Fertility by Andrew R. Whitson, Harlow Leslie Walster (1912)
"When sidehills are eroded by heavy downfalls of rain, it is the finer portions of
... In this way, it comes about that the erosion of the sidehills has the ..."
3. Sessional Papers by Ontario Legislative Assembly (1906)
"This work will consist of sidehills and broken ridges from 40 to 100 feet high
and will average about 25000 Cubic yards per mile, 40 per cent. rock. ..."
4. Biennial Report by California Dept. of Agriculture, California State Commission of Horticulture (1887)
"One foot in one hundred ought not to be exceeded, viz., if you expect to irrigate
in furrows. By using checks you can manage sidehills of considerable slant ..."
5. The Bookman (1902)
"... no sidehills to wash into the creek, no bottom to the soil, no stones, no
bones, no nuthin" to break a plough er dull an axe. ..."
6. North American Birds Eggs by Chester Albert Reed (1904)
"... in thickets, or on dry sidehills, where they nest indifferently on the ground
or in ^ bushes, making their nests of grass and weed stems. They are 563a. ..."
7. North American Birds Eggs by Chester Albert Reed (1904)
"... in thickets, or on dry sidehills. where they nest indifferently on the ground
or in bushes, making their nests of grass and weed stems. ..."
8. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General (1890)
"... it will break it up, and on sidehills it goes much steadier and better than
my old one. ' ' The first steel rope I lud did above 2000 acres, ..."
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