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drumlin

[ druhm-lin ]

noun

Geology.
  1. a long, narrow or oval, smoothly rounded hill of unstratified glacial drift.


drumlin

/ ˈ»å°ùÊŒ³¾±ôɪ²Ô /

noun

  1. a streamlined mound of glacial drift, rounded or elongated in the direction of the original flow of ice
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drumlin

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  1. An extended, oval hill or ridge of compacted sediment deposited and shaped by a glacier. Drumlins are typically about 30 m (98 ft) high and are longer than they are wide. They have one steep and one gentle slope along their longest axis, which is parallel to the direction of the glacier's movement. The steepest slope faces the direction from which the glacier originated, and the gentler slope faces the direction in which the glacier was advancing.
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of drumlin1

1825–35; drum 2 + -lin, variant of -ling 1
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of drumlin1

C19: from Irish Gaelic druim ridge + -lin -ling 1
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The rest must hand-scrub every hardened drumlin of melted cheese off every plate, then play Jenga with a drying rack that is never dry anymore.

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Architect Paul Albanese took full advantage of this feature—by the end of the round, golfers have intersected the drumlin 10 times in different ways.

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Every foot of the landscape from here on north would be scored and scarred with reminders of glaciation—scattered boulders called erratics, drumlins, eskers, high tarns, cirques.

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I know the swell of that clavicle, the drumlin of bone, which now juts strangely, broken for sure.

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I spent the mornings at my chores, one eye on the sea, and then, from the top of a drumlin, spent some time looking north, my old spyglass ready.

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