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hummocky

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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adj.

of ice, marked by hummocks (def. 2).

See: hummock(def. 2)

Quotations

1850

The refraction had caused a hummocky piece of ice to assume these forms.

1906

Wind and tide had jammed together masses of floating ice, now frozen solid, but with a surface rough and uneven--"hummocky," as Newfoundlanders call it--and liable to have treacherous spots to catch the unwary.

1939

[Soon] they were out of sight round the first of the hummocky ice. . . .