drumlin
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- noun
- /ˈdrʌmlɪn/
- Specialized
- Many of the islands and much of the Massachusetts coast are mounds of glacial till, or drumlins, deposited by ice age glaciers during the past 100,000 years.
Examples
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On a clear day, you can see Maine from the top of Bearskin Neck, and just across the bay is Pigeon Hill, a 200-foot-high drumlin surrounded by thick woods.
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The board reviewed additional information about the completion of Damascus Trail on the Glacial Drumlin property.
Blog text (11) -
Next, the river carves its way among glacial moraines and drumlins.
Academic text (2006) -
On a clear day, you can see Maine from the top of Bearskin Neck, and just across the bay is Pigeon Hill, a 200-foot-high drumlin surrounded by thick woods.
Fiction book (2001) -
The glacier left Chilmark a roly-poly landscape full of kettle holes, drumlins, and clay and rock.
Blog text (8) -
The lowlands flooded, leaving one of the world's few drowned drumlin fields.
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Etymology
The word drumlin comes from the Irish word droim meaning 'back' or 'ridge', with a small ending that makes it 'little ridge'. Think of a glacier making a smooth, long 'little back' on the land—this is why a drumlin is the long, streamlined hill left by ice.