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hommock

hommock is the archaic form of hummock.

Meaning of hummock

Noun

hummock (plural hummocks)

  1. A small hill; a hillock; a knoll.
    • The west edge of their landing area was swarming with…things. Like wolves or dogs, but with long necks, they moved quickly forward, darting from hummock to hummock2020 [1992], Vernor Vinge, chapter 3, in A Fire Upon the Deep, 1st edition, New York: Tor Essentials, →ISBN, page 36
  2. A ridge or hill of ice in an ice field.
  3. (Scotland) A fistful.

Forms of hommock

pluralhommocks

Words formed from hommock

Questions about hommock

What is hommock the archaic form of?
Hommock is the archaic form of hummock.

Words near hommock in the dictionary

  1. Hommertzheim
  2. Hommertzheims
  3. Hommes
  4. hommes fatales
  5. hommes fatals
  6. hommock
  7. hommocks
  8. hommocky
  9. hommos
  10. hommus
  11. homo

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hommock (page history and authors); hummock (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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