Definition of mound

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Mound (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..

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Mound :: Mound (v. t.) To fortify or inclose with a mound.
Tumulous :: Tumulous (a.) Full of small hills or mounds; hilly; tumulose.
Bank :: Bank (n.) A mound, pile, or ridge of earth, raised above the surrounding level; hence, anything shaped like a mound or ridge of earth; as, a bank of clouds; a bank of snow..
Rockery :: Rockery (n.) A mound formed of fragments of rock, earth, etc., and set with plants..
Hornito :: Hornito (n.) A low, oven-shaped mound, common in volcanic regions, and emitting smoke and vapors from its sides and summit..
Parados :: Parados (n.) An intercepting mound, erected in any part of a fortification to protect the defenders from a rear or ricochet fire; a traverse..
Barbette :: Barbette (n.) A mound of earth or a platform in a fortification, on which guns are mounted to fire over the parapet..
Earthbank :: Earthbank (n.) A bank or mound of earth.
Eschar :: Eschar (n.) In Ireland, one of the continuous mounds or ridges of gravelly and sandy drift which extend for many miles over the surface of the country. Similar ridges in Scotland are called kames or kams..
Mounded :: Mounded (imp. & p. p.) of Moun.
Mount :: Mount (v.) A bulwark for offense or defense; a mound.
Undam :: Undam (v. t.) To free from a dam, mound, or other obstruction..
Camp :: Camp (n.) A mound of earth in which potatoes and other vegetables are stored for protection against frost; -- called also burrow and pie.
Mounding :: Mounding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Moun.
Heave :: Heave (v. i.) To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound..
Tumulate :: Tumulate (v. t.) To cover, as a corpse, with a mound or tomb; to bury..
Imbankment :: Imbankment (n.) The act of surrounding with a bank; a bank or mound raised for defense, a roadway, etc.; an embankment. See Embankment..
Tell :: Tell (n.) A hill or mound.
Mound :: Mound (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..
Ant-hill :: Ant-hill (n.) A mound thrown up by ants or by termites in forming their nests.
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