sidehill

English

Etymology

side +‎ hill

Noun

sidehill (plural sidehills)

1. (US) The side or slope of a hill; a sloping descent.
   • 1941 March, “Notes and News: Modernising a Main Line”, in Railway Magazine, page 133:

     By reason of this planning the line, which for much of its length has a sidehill location in river canyons with steep sides, was compelled to tunnel extensively, the 43 tunnels on the route having a combined length of 44,189 ft.

Synonyms

• hillside

Derived terms

• sidehill gouger

References

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “sidehill”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

• “sidehill”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

• Hillside, hillside