tolt

[< [Brit.dial. toll clump or ridge of trees]

Nfld

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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an isolated hill rising abruptly from a plain; monadnock.

Quotations

1905

Many detached peaks, locally called "tolts" rise abruptly from the plain.

1946

Near Holyrood is a striking tolt (or monadnock), the so-called Butterpot, which is a relic of one of Iwenhofel's peneplains.

1964

When we drove east from Deer Lake, it was through . . . forest interspersed with lakes and sudden small mountains called "tolts."