mole-hill

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

MO'LE-HILL, noun A little hillock or elevation of earth thrown up by moles working under ground; hence proverbially, a very small hill, or other small thing, compared with a larger. --Having leaped over such mountains, lie down before a mole-hill
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