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plural hills
An elevated landmass smaller than a mountain. quotations examples
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.
1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company
A sloping road. examples
(US) A heap of earth surrounding a plant. examples
(US) A single cluster or group of plants growing close together, and having the earth heaped up about them. examples
(baseball) The pitcher’s mound. examples
The raised portion of the surface of a vinyl record. examples
third-person singular simple present hills, present participle hilling, simple past and past participle hilled
To form into a heap or mound. quotations examples
Spread, heaped up, stacked with good things; and redolent of citrons and grapes, hilling round tall vases of wine;
1849, Herman Melville, Mardi: And a Voyage Thither. […], volume II, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, publishers, […]
To heap or draw earth around plants. quotations examples
After the seeds were inserted, the earth was hilled up all around into a smooth little mound.
1977, Gene Weltfish, The Lost Universe: Pawnee Life and Culture, page 102