Mound
[maʊnd]
Definition
(noun.) structure consisting of an artificial heap or bank usually of earth or stones; 'they built small mounds to hide behind'.
(noun.) (baseball) the slight elevation on which the pitcher stands.
(verb.) form into a rounded elevation; 'mound earth'.
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Definition
(n.) A ball or globe forming part of the regalia of an emperor or other sovereign. It is encircled with bands, enriched with precious stones, and surmounted with a cross; -- called also globe.
(n.) An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embarkment thrown up for defense; a bulwark; a rampart; also, a natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll.
(v. t.) To fortify or inclose with a mound.
Checker: Sherman
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Hillock, heap.[2]. Rampart, bulwark, defence.
Checker: Mae
Definition
n. (her.) the representation of a globe encircled with bands and surmounted by a cross.—Also Monde.
n. an artificial mount: a natural hillock appearing as if thrown up by man's work: (fort.) a bank of earth or stone raised as a protection.—v.t. to fortify with a mound.—n.pl. Mound′-birds a family of Australasian gallinaceous birds which build large mounds as incubators for their eggs.—n. Mound′-build′er one of the primitive race which built the vast so-called Indian mounds found in the United States esp. east of the Mississippi River.
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Examples
- If she rose a trimmed, artificial mound, without inequality, what vantage would she offer the foot? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- There is a high rocky mound, called El Penon, on the right of the road, springing up from the low flat ground dividing the lakes. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The small mound I have mentioned a while ago was once occupied by the Phenician city of Laish. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- This is his own Mound,' whispered Wegg, as he recovered his wind, 'this one. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- From the top of the crosses rise imperial arches, closing under a mound and cross. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Of these 4,800 were in Kentucky and Illinois, 7,000 in Memphis, 19,200 from Mound City south, and 17,500 at Corinth. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The body is brought and the pyre fired, and then for ten days the warriors built a mighty mound to be seen afar by the traveller on sea or land. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Till the Mounds is down and this business completed, you're accountable for all the property, recollect. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Could you be got to do so, till the Mounds are gone? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I can price the Mounds to a fraction, and I know how they can be best disposed of; and likewise that they take no harm by standing where they do. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Using this cover, they were linking the individual mounds up with stones and dirt. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Not them Mounds without,' said Mr Wegg, extending his right hand with an air of solemn reasoning, 'encouragement? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Because it would be unknowingly sold with the mounds else, and the buyer would get what he was never meant to have, and never bought. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It was a cloudy night, and the black shadow of the Mounds made the dark yard darker. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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