hill

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a local and well-defined elevation of the land

   they loved to roam the hills of West Virginia

2. 2
   noun

   An elevated landmass smaller than a mountain.

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

3. 3
   noun

   A sloping road.

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

4. 4
   noun

   A single cluster or group of plants growing close together, and having the earth heaped up about them.

   a hill of corn or potatoes

5. 5
   verb

   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;

6. 6
   verb

   To heap or draw earth around plants.

   After the seeds were inserted, the earth was hilled up all around into a smooth little mound.

7. 7
   name

   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.

8. 8
   noun

   structure consisting of an artificial heap or bank usually of earth or stones

Etymology

From Middle English hil (“hill”), from Old English hyll (“hill”), from Proto-Germanic *hulliz (“hill”), from Proto-Indo-European *kl̥Hnís (“top, hill, rock”) (compare also Proto-Germanic *halluz (“stone, rock”)). Cognate with Middle Dutch hille, hulle (“hill”), Low German hull (“hill”), Faroese hólur (“hill”), Icelandic and Old Norse hóll (“hill”), Norn hul (“hillock”), Norwegian hol (“low hillock”), Swedish kulle (“hill”), Catalan coll (“hill”), Italian colle (“hill”), Latin collis (“hill”), Lithuanian kalnas (“hill, mountain”), Albanian kallumë (“big pile, tall heap”), Russian холм (xolm, “h…