sidehill

English

Etymology

From 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

• “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