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drumlin

/ˈdrʌmlɪn/

noun
- 1. a low oval mound or small hill, typically one of a group, consisting of compacted boulder clay moulded by past glacial action.
Word Origin early 19th century: probably from drum2 + -lin, Scots variant of -ling.
Derivatives
- 1. drumlinoid adjective
Scrabble Points: 10
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Drumlin
A drumlin, from the Irish word ("little ridge"), first recorded in 1833, in the classical sense is an elongated hill in the shape of an inverted spoon or half-buried egg formed by glacial ice acting on underlying unconsolidated till or ground moraine. Assemblages of drumlins are referred to as fields or swarms; they can create a landscape which is often described as having a 'basket of eggs topogr... Wikipedia
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