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a hill that gave up on its dreams but kept the view
means A small hill or mound, a modest rise in the land.
from A homegrown English word: 'hill' plus the diminutive '-ock,' the same little suffix that shrinks a 'bull' into a 'bullock' and a 'butt' into a 'buttock.' It surfaced in Middle English, meaning quite literally 'a tiny hill' — the language doing exactly what it says on the tin.
- old roots
- English since the 1300s, literally little hill
- burial use
- many ancient mounds are deliberate, not natural
- poet favorite
- beloved by writers needing gentle landscape without effort
- ant scale
- anthills are technically hillocks to insects
- no limit
- no official height divides hillock from hill
for instance
bunker hill — revolutionary war battle site in boston, massachusetts, june 1775
galatas hill — archaeological site in turkey with 18 occupation layers spanning 7000 years
silbury hill — largest prehistoric mound in europe, wiltshire england, built around 2660 bce