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How to pronounce hill
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What does hill mean?
nounAn elevated landmass smaller than a mountain.
“The park is sheltered from the wind by a hill to the east.”
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.”
A heap of earth surrounding a plant.
verbTo 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;”
To heap or draw earth around plants.
“After the seeds were inserted, the earth was hilled up all around into a smooth little mound.”
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