Definition of mound

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

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Mound :: Mound (v. t.) To fortify or inclose with a mound.
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..
Undam :: Undam (v. t.) To free from a dam, mound, or other obstruction..
Barbette :: Barbette (n.) A mound of earth or a platform in a fortification, on which guns are mounted to fire over the parapet..
Imbankment :: Imbankment (n.) The act of surrounding with a bank; a bank or mound raised for defense, a roadway, etc.; an embankment. See Embankment..
Mounding :: Mounding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Moun.
Stannary :: Stank (n.) A dam or mound to stop water.
Tumulous :: Tumulous (a.) Full of small hills or mounds; hilly; tumulose.
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..
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..
Earthbank :: Earthbank (n.) A bank or mound of earth.
Heave :: Heave (v. i.) To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound..
Orb :: Orb (n.) Same as Mound, a ball or globe. See lst Mound..
Berry :: Berry (n.) A mound; a hillock.
Hornito :: Hornito (n.) A low, oven-shaped mound, common in volcanic regions, and emitting smoke and vapors from its sides and summit..
Dun :: Dun (n.) A mound or small hill.
Tope :: Tope (n.) A moundlike Buddhist sepulcher, or memorial monument, often erected over a Buddhist relic..
Tumulate :: Tumulate (v. t.) To cover, as a corpse, with a mound or tomb; to bury..
Low :: Low (n.) A hill; a mound; a grave.
Burrow :: Burrow (n.) A mound. See 3d Barrow, and Camp, n., 5..
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