hillock
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- n a small natural hill
- One, her a sequined nightgown glinting in the sun, indicated a place just beyond a sandy hillock a few miles distant; another said it was closer to the water tower.
- The Secret Service deemed Rwanda's memorial to genocide victims, on a hillock at the airport, too dangerous a venue for Clinton's speech on the slaughter.
- Four passengers raced wildly through the door; a second burst spat from a hillock, and they fell lifeless onto the bleached clay.