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mendip

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mendip [′men‚dip]
(geology)
A buried hill that is exposed as an inlier.
A coastal-plain hill that was originally an offshore island.


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Mendip miners, for instance, came to a merchant who had offended them and told him "that they would kill him & cutt him in peeces & lett out his fatt guts out of his bellie.
This is at times a rather literal-minded book, prone to over-simplification and even distortion when it ventures into (for example) Chartism, wages and working conditions, missing out on or under-using one or two important books (particularly Lyn Munqn's Popular leisure in the Lake Counties), and taking a few liberties with English place-names (the worst of which locates the Mendip Hills in Cheshire instead of Somerset, two hundred miles to the south).
Ltd - Llangollen Railway PLC - London Eastern Railway Ltd - London Underground Ltd - Mendip Rail Ltd - Merseyrail Services Hldng Co.
 
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