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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Undam :: Undam (v. t.) To free from a dam, mound, or other obstruction..
Tope :: Tope (n.) A moundlike Buddhist sepulcher, or memorial monument, often erected over a Buddhist relic..
Cam :: Cam (n.) A ridge or mound of earth.
Bank :: Bank (v. t.) To raise a mound or dike about; to inclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank..
Cast :: Cast (v. t.) To throw up, as a mound, or rampart..
Knoll :: Knoll (n.) A little round hill; a mound; a small elevation of earth; the top or crown of a hill.
Kitchen Middens :: Kitchen middens () Relics of neolithic man found on the coast of Denmark, consisting of shell mounds, some of which are ten feet high, one thousand feet long, and two hundred feet wide. The name is applied also to similar mounds found on the American coast from Canada to Florida, made by the North American Indians..
Berry :: Berry (n.) A mound; a hillock.
Ant-hill :: Ant-hill (n.) A mound thrown up by ants or by termites in forming their nests.
Earthbank :: Earthbank (n.) A bank or mound of earth.
Camp :: Camp (n.) A mound of earth in which potatoes and other vegetables are stored for protection against frost; -- called also burrow and pie.
Mounded :: Mounded (imp. & p. p.) of Moun.
Stannary :: Stank (n.) A dam or mound to stop water.
Rockery :: Rockery (n.) A mound formed of fragments of rock, earth, etc., and set with plants..
Maleo :: Maleo (n.) A bird of Celebes (megacephalon maleo), allied to the brush turkey. It makes mounds in which to lay its eggs..
Tumulate :: Tumulate (v. t.) To cover, as a corpse, with a mound or tomb; to bury..
Burrow :: Burrow (n.) A mound. See 3d Barrow, and Camp, n., 5..
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..
Rideau :: Rideau (n.) A small mound of earth; ground slightly elevated; a small ridge.
Low :: Low (n.) A hill; a mound; a grave.
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