brae
Highlands hill incline
A brae is a hillside or slope, particularly the bank of a river.
The word is Scottish and appears in Scottish literature and place names: We climbed the brae to see the village below.
Outside Scotland, it remains largely unfamiliar.
Small rounded hill
- hillockMinor land elevation
- bankPlace holding deposits
- slopeAngled terrain or steepness
- ridgeNarrow raised strip
tor · drumlin · hummock · kopje · fell · spur · bluff · escarpment
Moorland flowering shrub
knoll
Small rounded hill
ridge · tor · drumlin · hummock · kopje · fell · spur · bluff · escarpment · promontory
heather
Moorland flowering shrub
loch · Gaelic · burns · bonnie · dun · crofter · fell · ben · moor · peat
meadow
Grassy field for grazing
pasture · bucolic · idyllic · shepherd · verdant · heather · gorse · bracken · wandering · rambling
incline
Angled rising surface
steepness · bank · pitch · grade · rise · drop · climb · scramble · path · trail
- landformsmountain, cliff, valley, volcano, mountain ridge
- Scottish culturebagpipes, kilts, tartan, haggis, Highland Games
- British Countrysidehedgerow, village, hedgerows, hamlet, moorland
- hillshill, hillock, hilltop, hillside, knoll
- Crosswordesealee, aloe, epee, erne, etui
- Scotsaye, wee, nae, ken, couldnae