Definition of mound

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Mound (v. t.) To fortify or inclose with a mound.

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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..
Rockery :: Rockery (n.) A mound formed of fragments of rock, earth, etc., and set with plants..
Cast :: Cast (v. t.) To throw up, as a mound, or rampart..
Ant-hill :: Ant-hill (n.) A mound thrown up by ants or by termites in forming their nests.
Camp :: Camp (n.) A mound of earth in which potatoes and other vegetables are stored for protection against frost; -- called also burrow and pie.
Cam :: Cam (n.) A ridge or mound of earth.
Undam :: Undam (v. t.) To free from a dam, mound, or other obstruction..
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..
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..
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..
Barbette :: Barbette (n.) A mound of earth or a platform in a fortification, on which guns are mounted to fire over the parapet..
Mounding :: Mounding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Moun.
Stupa :: Stupa (n.) A mound or monument commemorative of Buddha.
Tumulate :: Tumulate (v. t.) To cover, as a corpse, with a mound or tomb; to bury..
Heave :: Heave (v. i.) To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound..
Rath :: Rath (n.) A hill or mound.
Knoll :: Knoll (n.) A little round hill; a mound; a small elevation of earth; the top or crown of a hill.
Mounded :: Mounded (imp. & p. p.) of Moun.
Tumulous :: Tumulous (a.) Full of small hills or mounds; hilly; tumulose.
Stannary :: Stank (n.) A dam or mound to stop water.
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