Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Filled with hommocks; piled in the form of hommocks; -- said of ice.
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- adjective Alternative form of
hummocky .
Etymologies
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hommock + -y
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Examples
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Great part of this island consists of excellent hommocky land, which is the soil this plant delights in, as well as cotton, corn, batatas, and almost every other esculent vegetable.
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Live Oaks and others already noticed; and the opposite point of the crescent, gradually retires with hommocky projecting points, indenting the grassy marshes, and lastly terminates in infinite green plains and meadows, united with the skies and waters of the lake; such a natural landscape, such a rural scene, is not to be imitated by the united ingenuity and labour of man.
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