Reverse Dictionary: HILL

ADJECTIVES
► BANKY inclined like a bank or hillside; hilly → 1610 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► BRAEIE ► BRAYIE hilly; sloping → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► CLIVOSE full of hills, hilly, steep → 1731
► HILLOUS hilly → 1550 obs.
► MONTICULOUS having many small hills; hilly → 1656 obs.
► MONTIVAGOUS wandering up and down the hills and mountains → 1658 obs.
► SMART of a hill: relatively steep → 1670
► UNEASY hilly, irregular, not level → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)

NOUNS
► ALTO a hill, an eminence, generally without trees → 1892 Amer. dial.
► BACK a hill → 1888 Eng. dial.
► BALL a knoll, a rounded hill → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► BAND a ridge of a hill → 1513
► BANK a high ground, height, hill → c1325  obs. exc. N. Eng. dial.
► BARF a long low ridge or hill, generally isolated → 1678 Eng. dial.
► BARGH 1. the steep face of a hill; a road up it → 1674 Eng. dial. obs.
2. a long low ridge or hill, generally isolated → 1678 Eng. dial.
► BARICK a hill → 1916 Amer. dial.
► BARROW a mountain, a mount, a hill or hillock → c885 obs.
► BELL the top of a hill; the highest part of a slope; a knoll → 1898 Sc. (Bk.)
► BEN a hill, a mountain; a mountain-peak → 1788
► BENT the slope or hollow of a hill, a hillside → 1814 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► BERRY a mound, a hillock → 1205 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► BICKNING a beacon, the summit of a hill → 1888 Eng. dial.
► BIN a hill, a mountain, a mountain-peak → 1788
► BRA a hill → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► BRAE ► BRAY a declivity, hillside, steep road; a knoll, a hill; the bank of a river → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► BRAE-FACE the front or slope of a hill → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► BREAK a hollow in a hill → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► BUTT  a hillock, a mound → 1600
► CA a pass between hills → 1898 Sc. (Bk.)
► CAM the crest of a hill, a ridge → 1864 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► CASTLE a round peaked hill → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► CATSTEP a small terrace on a hill → 1939 Amer. dial.
► CHOCOLATE DROP a small, rounded hill → 1968 Amer. dial.
► COBBLE a rounded hill → 1887 Amer. dial.
► CROWD the rounded summit of a mountain, hill, or other elevation → 1582
► DICKY the top of a hill → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► DOODLE a small knoll or hill → 1953 Amer. dial.
► DOWN a hill, also, a mountain → a1000 obs.
► EDGE the ridge or summit of a hill or range of hills; a steep hill or hillside → 1715 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► FELL-FOOT the foot of a rocky hill → 1856 Eng. dial.
► FELLSIDE a hillside, a mountain district → 1808 Eng. dial.
► GAIRY a steep hill or precipice; a moorland, upland; a piece of waste land → 1871 Sc.
► GAIRY-FACE a steep hill or precipice; a moorland, upland; a piece of waste land → 1871 Sc.
► GALE a place in the hollow of a hill → 1891 Eng. dial.
► GUT-BUSTER a very steep hill → 1950s NZ sl.
► HAMMOCK a small hill → 1709 US
► HANGING a steep slope or declivity of a hill → c1400 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► HAUGH a hillock → 1886 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► HAYSTACK a small, rounded hill → 1969 Amer. dial.
► HEAD the higher end of a place, the upper part of a street; a hill or eminence → 1715 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► HEALD a slope, incline, declivity; a hill → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► HUMMOCK a small hill → 1666 US
► JACK (AND JILL) a (small) hill → 1930s rhyming sl.
► KAME a long, narrow, steep-sided mound or ridge; a hill-ridge → 1814 Sc.
► KOP a hill → 1835 S. Afr.
► KOPPIE a small hill → 1848 S. Afr.
► LAW a hill, esp. one more or less round or conical → a1300 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► LEDGE a range of mountains or hills → 1652-62 obs.
► LOMA a hill, mound, or ridge → 1857 Amer. dial.
► LOW a hill → a1000
► MONTICLE a small mountain or hill → 1490
► MONTICULE a small mountain or hill → 1777
► MORNE a small hillock → 1889
► NAB ► NABB a projecting or jutting part of a hill or rock;  a peak, a promontory; a rocky or prominent hill, a summit → c1450 chiefly Sc. & Eng. dial.
► NEB a projecting hill, a prominent headland; a point of land jutting out into a lake → 1794 Eng. dial.
► NECK a pass between hills or mountains; the narrow part of a mountain pass → 1707
► NICK a gap or pass between two hills → 1606 orig. Sc.
► NUBBLE a small hill or mountain; an islet → 1890 Amer. dial.
► PAN a hollow in the hills; a depressed in a field or other land → 1836 Eng. dial.
► PIMPLE a hill → 1899 lower classes’ usage
► POBIE a peak or high hill → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► POTATO HILL a small, rounded hill → 1819 Amer. dial.
► POTATO KNOB HILL a small, rounded hill → 1934 Amer. dial.
► POTS AND KETTLES a small, rounded hill, the size of a house → 1969 Amer. dial.
► RAISE a small hill; a rise → 1969 Amer. dial.
► RIG a ridge of elevated ground; a long narrow hill, or range of hills; a chain of islands, a line of rocks, etc. → c1475
► SCALE a hill of steep ascent → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SCAR the ridge of a hill → 1788 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► SCOUT a high rock or hill; a projecting ridge; a precipice → 1781 Eng. dial. obs.
► SCRAPE a bare place on a steep hillside or bank → 1894 Eng. dial.
► SIDEHILL a hillside, a slope → 1674 Amer. dial.
► SPRUNT a hill; a steep road → 1912 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SUMMITY the topmost point or ridge of a mountain or hill → c1400 obs.
► TAIT the top of a hill → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► TAM a heap or small mound or hillock → 1906 Sc.
► TAMMOCK a hillock; a little knoll in a marsh or in damp grazing land → 1789 Sc. & Ireland
► THANK-YOU-MARM a small, rounded hill → 1965 Amer. dial.
► TOFT a knoll or hillock in a flat region, esp. one suitable for the site of a house or tower → 1362
► TOMMACK a hillock; a little knoll in a marsh or in damp grazing land → 1789 Sc. & Ireland
► TOOT an isolated, conspicuous hill suitable as a place of observation; a lookout hill → 1387
► TOOT-HILL a natural or artificial hill or mound used for a lookout place; a prominent hill → 1382
► TOOTING-HILL a natural or artificial hill or mound used for a lookout place; a prominent hill → c1460 obs.
► TOPPING a high hill; the peaked top of a hill; a cairn on the top of a hill → 1876 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► TOTE an isolated, conspicuous hill suitable as a place of observation; a lookout hill → 1387
► TOUT-HILL a natural or artificial hill or mound used for a lookout place; a prominent hill → 1535
► TUMP a hillock → 1589
► VORD a high hill; a watch-tower → 1822 Sc. obs.
► WHALEBACK a sharply rising hill or ridge of land → 1879 Amer. dial.
► WHALEBACK RIDGE a sharply rising hill or ridge of land → 1879 Amer. dial.
► WHALESBACK a sharply rising hill or ridge of land → 1946 Amer. dial.
► YOKKEL a shoulder; a shoulder-like formation on the side of a hill → 1897 Sc.

NOUNS – PERSON
► HILLSIDER one living on a hillside → 1898
► HILL WALKER a person who participates in hill walking (walking in hilly country, esp. as a pastime) → 1863 chiefly Brit.
► HILL-WOMAN a woman who lives on a hill or belongs to a hill-tribe; also, a forewoman in a dust-yard → 1851

PHRASES
► WHERE THE WIND AND WEATHER SHEARS on the ridge of a hill, on the highest ground → 1815

VERBS
► LOWER to go down a hill → 1780 obs.
► QUAVE A BRAE to go zigzag up or down a hill → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► RAISE to reach the top of a hill or rise → 1804 Amer. dial.