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mound

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noun

a natural elevation of earth; a hillock or knoll.

an artificial elevation of earth, as for a defense work or a dam or barrier; an embankment.

a heap or raised mass: a mound of papers; a mound of hay.

Baseball. the slightly raised ground from which the pitcher delivers the ball. Compare rubber (def. 13).

an elevation formed of earth, sand, stones, etc., especially over a grave or ruins.

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a tumulus or other raised work of earth dating from a prehistoric or long-past period.

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verb (used with object)

to form into a mound; heap up.

to furnish with a mound of earth, as for a defense.

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Origin:
1505–15; earlier: hedge or fence used as a boundary or protection, (v.) to enclose with a fence; compare Old English mund hand, hence protection, protector; cognate with Old Norse mund, Middle Dutch mond protection

Related forms

un·mound·ed, adjective

Example Sentences

The park was larger, and the mound farther away, and his opponents were either his age or olderBut the stakes were much lower.

Somewhere in the big mound of paperwork it says that this process only takes a few months, and you can track your status on line.

She noticed a wheat stalk stuck in the mound of earth with a ribbon tied to it.

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The park was larger, and the mound farther away, and his opponents were either his age or olderBut the stakes were much lower.

Somewhere in the big mound of paperwork it says that this process only takes a few months, and you can track your status on line.

She noticed a wheat stalk stuck in the mound of earth with a ribbon tied to it.

The scientists also examined pottery found in the same mound as the tablet.

M barkeri not only produces methane that could be harvested for fuel-the microbes also make the whole trash mound more compact.

In contrast to this imperial pomp, the sage's own tomb is a mound of earth inside a simple brick wall.

Dense, sturdy mound of gray-green foliage is topped by darkest purple flowers and bright violet bracts.

But the main attraction is the enormous central mound.

Rogers said he wiped dirt off his hand before he took the mound in the second.

The sheer number of business books means that the diamonds shine rarely in a mound of dross.

They offered him a treat-insects from a fresh termite mound.

The lion approached the herd of gazelles slowly while hidden by a large termite mound.

Army uniforms-appear on a mound overlooking a bamboo-hut village.

S pecies include a spreading mound and a ground-covering mat.

McKey is reluctant to speculate on how many people were supported by mound agriculture.

O'Rourke said as he proudly surveyed the two-story mound of plastic milk jugs, yogurt containers and cola.

She sits on a low, pink plastic stool, behind a mound of unsorted goods which she is gradually dividing into smaller piles.

Sloth bears extract termites by gouging a hole in a mound and sucking the insects through a gap in their front teeth.

Ferry scoops up a mound of compost containing beneficial earthworms.

Nearby, bulldozers plow acres of sod into an ever-rising mound.

The first sign of trouble is often a mound of fresh, finely.

It will start to dry out and thicken into a mound of dough as you continue to stir.

If this postseason will be remembered for anything, thought, it will be the individual performances on the mound.

It will ferret through the mound of management literature that arrives on my desk everyday for buried nuggets.

Nearby, on a conical mound of mud, a flamingo bent toward its chick to offer a broth of fats and proteins.

He collapsed in a heap and remained face down on the mound for several minutes.

Grow on trellis or on the ground as a trailing mound.

Sabathia, who had not allowed a base runner to that point, leaving the mound in the sixth inning as the game was delayed by rain.

The smell of musth and urine, of fresh death, hung over the mound of the corpse.

When seedlings have about five leaves, pile soil into a mound a few inches high around the stems to give them a bit of support.

Now, make a tiny mound of salt on a hard, smooth surface.

If your soil is heavy clay, mix some pumice or gravel into the backfill and plant your agaves on a mound.

Place the fries on top of a mound of cheese curds on a serving plate.

Mound soil berms around young trees and shrubs such as roses to concentrate water on the root zones.

Sloth bears extract termites by gouging a hole in a mound and sucking out the insects through a gap in their front teeth.

Mound polenta on dinner plates or in shallow bowls and ladle vegetable ragout over polenta.

There the solstice sun sets directly behind a ceremonial mound constructed some thousand years ago.

Repeat the procedure each time a new mound or vole hole appears on the property.

It sits on a mound he formed from sand spread earlier to allow wrestlers' feet to slide.

Instead, plant above soil level in raised beds or in a mound.

Red leaf monkeys will occasionally add minerals to their diet by eating dirt from a termite mound.

Several fire-breathing toilets reduce what you leave in them to a mound of ash.

Note the great hump, the lolling mound of fat that sways with each step of the skinny legs.

Dostum dismounted and shook everyone's hand, then sat on a mound covered with carpets.

Stone monuments, plazas, and an unusual earthen mound were found surrounding the temple mounds.

Drummond drew their attention to a red mound protruding from the crest of the hill behind them.

The pipeline burrows onward under a mound of raw earth-a monumental tribal scar creasing the barren landscape.

It had been dug from the side of a jagged mound as high as a two-story house.

At noon he inspects another fresh mound of elephant dung, poking his finger through the mulchy gobs.

It had three well-worn entrance holes, two on one side of this ancient termite mound with an escape hatch out the back.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

noun

a globe topped with a cross that symbolizes power and constitutes part of the regalia of an English sovereign.

Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English: world < Old French monde < Latin mundus world

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World English Dictionary

mound¹ (maʊnd)

—n
1.	a raised mass of earth, debris, etc
2.	any heap or pile: a mound of washing
3.	a small natural hill
4.	archaeol another word for barrow
5.	an artificial ridge of earth, stone, etc, as used for defence

—vb
6.	(often foll by up) to gather into a mound; heap
7.	(tr) to cover or surround with a mound: to mound a grave

Related: tumular

[C16: earthwork, perhaps from Old English mund hand, hence defence: compare Middle Dutch mond protection]

mound² (maʊnd)

—n
	heraldry a rare word for orb

[C13 (meaning: world, C16: orb): from French monde, from Latin mundus world]

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Word Origin & History

mound

1515, as a verb, "to fence in;" the noun is 1551, and originally meant "fence, hedge," now only dial. in that sense; commonly supposed to be from O.E. mund "hand, protection, guardianship" (cognate with L. manus), but this is not certain. Perhaps a confusion of the native word and M.Du. mond "protection,"

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used in military sense for fortifications of various types, including earthworks, and infl. by mount (n.). Sense of "artificial elevation" (especially over a grave) is from 1726.

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