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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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..
Heave :: Heave (v. i.) To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound..
Burrow :: Burrow (n.) A mound. See 3d Barrow, and Camp, n., 5..
Maleo :: Maleo (n.) A bird of Celebes (megacephalon maleo), allied to the brush turkey. It makes mounds in which to lay its eggs..
Knoll :: Knoll (n.) A little round hill; a mound; a small elevation of earth; the top or crown of a hill.
Rath :: Rath (n.) A hill or mound.
Rockery :: Rockery (n.) A mound formed of fragments of rock, earth, etc., and set with plants..
Berry :: Berry (n.) A mound; a hillock.
Mount :: Mount (v.) A bulwark for offense or defense; a mound.
Imbankment :: Imbankment (n.) The act of surrounding with a bank; a bank or mound raised for defense, a roadway, etc.; an embankment. See Embankment..
Cast :: Cast (v. t.) To throw up, as a mound, or rampart..
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..
Tell :: Tell (n.) A hill or mound.
Stupa :: Stupa (n.) A mound or monument commemorative of Buddha.
Undam :: Undam (v. t.) To free from a dam, mound, or other obstruction..
Barrow :: Barrow (n.) A large mound of earth or stones over the remains of the dead; a tumulus.
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..
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..
Parados :: Parados (n.) An intercepting mound, erected in any part of a fortification to protect the defenders from a rear or ricochet fire; a traverse..
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