DCHP-2

hummock hammock, hommock, etc. [< older hammock a hill or knoll, often wooded, standing apart] DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

• 1 n. — Obs.

  a small stand of trees, usually one surrounded by prairie, barrens, etc.

  See also: bluff (def. 3a)  

  • This term, displaced by bluff in the West, was in general use among the fur traders and explorers and seems to have survived longest among their half-breed descendents. See 1858 quote.

• 2 n.

  See quotes.

  See also: ice hummock  hummock(ed) ice  

• 3 n.

  See niggerhead (def. 2).

  See also: niggerhead (def. 2)