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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..

Tumulate :: Tumulate (v. t.) To cover, as a corpse, with a mound or tomb; to bury..

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

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

Tumulous :: Tumulous (a.) Full of small hills or mounds; hilly; tumulose.

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..

Dun :: Dun (n.) A mound or small 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..

Cast :: Cast (v. t.) To throw up, as a mound, or rampart..

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..

Rockery :: Rockery (n.) A mound formed of fragments of rock, earth, etc., and set with plants..

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.

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

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..

Mounded :: Mounded (imp. & p. p.) of Moun.

Mound :: 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..

Rideau :: Rideau (n.) A small mound of earth; ground slightly elevated; a small ridge.

Berry :: Berry (n.) A mound; a hillock.

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..

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