hummocky, a.
(ˈhʌməkɪ)
Also 8 hammocky, hommocky.
[f. prec. + -y.]
1. Abounding in or characterized by hummocks; having the surface rising irregularly in hummocks.
| 1766 J. Bartram Jrnl. in Stork Acc. E. Florida 69 That which is called hammocky land is generally full of large evergreen and water-oaks, mixed with red-bay and magnolia. 1791 W. Bartram Carolina 211 East Florida..being such a swampy hommocky country. 1817 Scoresby in Ann. Reg., Chron. 536 Such fields as exhibit a rugged, hummocky surface. 1835 Sir J. Ross Narr. 2nd Voy. Explan. Terms p. xvi, Hummocky ice, ice so uneven and rough as to be impassable or nearly so on foot. 1867 Musgrave Nooks Old France I. vii. 256 This rugged and hummocky road. |
b. fig. Uneven like hummocky ground.
| 1867 A. J. Ellis E.E. Pronunc. i. iv. 410 The verse is so ‘hummocky’ that no conclusions could be drawn from it respecting the number of syllables in a word. |
2. Of the form or nature of a hummock or boss-like eminence.
| 1791 W. Bartram Carolina 193 The opposite point of the crescent, gradually retires with hommocky projecting points, indenting the grassy marshes. 1823 Scoresby Whale Fishery 71 Innumerable hummocky peaks [of ice] were on every hand, some of them reared to the height of 30 or 40 feet. 1873 J. Geikie Gt. Ice Age ii. 21 Even the projecting masses of rock..present a rounded hummocky aspect. 1882 Pall Mall G. 10 July 5/1 A firth winding among hummocky hills. 1894 Field 1 Dec. 838/1 These grayling lie..sometimes..in the hummocky waves above sunken rocks. |