hill

plural hills

1. An elevated landmass smaller than a mountain.

   The park is sheltered from the wind by a hill to the east.

   2 more examples

   Jack and Gill Went up the hill, To fetch a bottle of water.

   1795, Gammer Gurton's Garland, or, The Nursery Parnassus, Stockton: R. Christopher, page 51

   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, →OCLC

2. A sloping part of a landscape, especially one with a road, trail, etc.

   You need to pick up speed to get up the hill that's coming up.

3. USA heap of earth surrounding a plant.
4. USA single cluster or group of plants growing close together, and having the earth heaped up about them.

   a hill of corn or potatoes

5. ball gamesThe pitcher’s mound.
6. The raised portion of the surface of a vinyl record.

   Antonyms: dale

present singular third person hills · participle present hilling · participle past hilled · past hilled

1. To form into a heap or mound.

   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, […], →OCLC

2. To heap or draw earth around plants.

   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

1. USwith definite articleCapitol Hill; the US Congress
2. Canadawith definite articleParliament Hill; the Parliament of Canada; the parliamentary precinct in Ottawa as opposed to parliamentary functions elsewhere in the country
3. A topographic surname from Middle English for someone who lived on or by a hill.

   Ms. Davis — who at different points in the set called to mind Andrew Hill, Cecil Taylor and Paul Bley, without resorting to mimicry — often led this charge, starting out with a blank canvas and creeping slantwise into a repeatable motif.

   2015 June 18, Nate Chinen, “Review: Eric Revis Trio Lets the Music Lead the Way at the Jazz Gallery”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 16 Jun 2022

4. A number of places:
   1. A town in Merrimack County, New Hampshire, United States.
   2. A town in Price County, Wisconsin, United States.
   3. A small village and civil parish (without a council) in South Gloucestershire district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref ST6495).
   4. A hamlet in Leamington Hastings parish, Rugby borough, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP4567).
   5. A suburb near Four Oaks, City of Birmingham, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SP1199).
   6. A former township in Halesowen, West Midlands, which later became Hill and Cakemore.
   7. A village in Saundersfoot community, Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SN1206).