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Helvellyn

[ hel-vel-in ]

noun

  1. a mountain in NW England. 3,118 feet (950 meters).


Helvellyn

/ hɛlˈvɛlɪn /

noun

  1. a mountain in NW England, in the Lake District. Height: 949 m (3114 ft)


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Example Sentences

Dicky Wyatt writes, in answer to Helvellyn, that the word "Kettledrum" means a large social party.

I've seen crags and cliffs, I've climbed the dark brow of the mighty Helvellyn, but this puts it over all the earth!

He spoke of it as though it were some beetling eminence, resembling at the very least a Snowdon or an Helvellyn.

There is a story of a traveller who was killed by a fall from a precipice near Mt. Helvellyn.

But Helvellyn was robed in clouds, and the rain was of that determined kind that admits of no hope.

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