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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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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..

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..

Undam :: Undam (v. t.) To free from a dam, mound, or other obstruction..

Low :: Low (n.) A hill; a mound; a grave.

Stannary :: Stank (n.) A dam or mound to stop water.

Orb :: Orb (n.) Same as Mound, a ball or globe. See lst Mound..

Bank :: Bank (v. t.) To raise a mound or dike about; to inclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank..

Cam :: Cam (n.) A ridge or mound of earth.

Burrow :: Burrow (n.) A mound. See 3d Barrow, and Camp, n., 5..

Rath :: Rath (n.) A hill or mound.

Barbette :: Barbette (n.) A mound of earth or a platform in a fortification, on which guns are mounted to fire over the parapet..

Ant-hill :: Ant-hill (n.) A mound thrown up by ants or by termites in forming their nests.

Stupa :: Stupa (n.) A mound or monument commemorative of Buddha.

Milldam :: Milldam (n.) A dam or mound to obstruct a water course, and raise the water to a height sufficient to turn a mill wheel..

Knoll :: Knoll (n.) A little round hill; a mound; a small elevation of earth; the top or crown of a hill.

Mole :: Mole (n.) A mound or massive work formed of masonry or large stones, etc., laid in the sea, often extended either in a right line or an arc of a circle before a port which it serves to defend from the violence of the waves, thus protecting ships in a harbor; also, sometimes, the harbor itself..

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..

Mount :: Mount (v.) A bulwark for offense or defense; a mound.

Barrow :: Barrow (n.) A large mound of earth or stones over the remains of the dead; a tumulus.