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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A low elevation, about 33 m (107 ft) high, in Charlestown, a section of Boston, Massachusetts. The first major Revolutionary War battle was named for this hill, though the actual fighting took place on nearby Breed's Hill on June 17, 1775.
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- noun the first important battle of the American War of Independence (1775) which was fought at Breed's Hill; the British defeated the colonial forces
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Examples
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If someone had said to an ignorant questioner, "This little knoll is called Bunker Hill," he could not have been more abashed than was
Trailin'! Max Brand 1918
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Knox, in command of a fort known as Bunker Hill on an eminence of what is now Grand Street.
Fifth Avenue Arthur Bartlett Maurice 1909
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A station was established near the place now known as Bunker Hill, between
The Old Franciscan Missions Of California George Wharton James 1890
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Mackenzie had made a short called Bunker Hill, about the aged residents of what had once been the richest neighbourhood in LA, but was now a near-slum.
Film | guardian.co.uk John Patterson 2010
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In the latter a specialty is made of the house's own brands of Cooper's Favorite, "a straight flour, and" Bunker Hill, "a full patent.
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Had the British soldiers' eyes been that white before Bunker Hill, the American colonists could have begun firing as they left Fenway Park.
Michael Jones: Cowboys and Aliens Michael Jones 2011
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Had the British soldiers' eyes been that white before Bunker Hill, the American colonists could have begun firing as they left Fenway Park.
Michael Jones: Cowboys and Aliens Michael Jones 2011
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Had the British soldiers' eyes been that white before Bunker Hill, the American colonists could have begun firing as they left Fenway Park.
Michael Jones: Cowboys and Aliens Michael Jones 2011
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The couple visits the restaurant every day back home in Bunker Hill, W. Va., if only to get a soda, she said.
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And after a day of scamming the widow, investigators said, the men often would relax at their favorite watering hole, the Gables Night Club in Bunker Hill, W. Va., just over the Virginia line, where they would take turns making toasts to her.
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