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monadnock

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mo·nad·nock  (m-ndnk)
n.
A mountain or rocky mass that has resisted erosion and stands isolated in an essentially level area. Also called inselberg.
[After Mount Monadnock, a peak of southwest New Hampshire.]
monadnock  (m-ndnk)
A mountain or rocky mass that has resisted erosion and stands isolated in an essentially level area.


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At length as the craft was cast to one side, and ran ranging along with the White Whale's flank, he seemed strangely oblivious of its advance --as the whale sometimes will --and Ahab was fairly within the smoky mountain mist, which, thrown off from the whale's spout, curled round his great, Monadnock hump; he was even thus close to him; when, with body arched back, and both arms lengthwise high-lifted to the poise, he darted his fierce iron, and his far fiercer curse into the hated whale.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
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