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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Barbette :: Barbette (n.) A mound of earth or a platform in a fortification, on which guns are mounted to fire over the parapet..
Rath :: Rath (n.) A hill or mound.
Ant-hill :: Ant-hill (n.) A mound thrown up by ants or by termites in forming their nests.
Undam :: Undam (v. t.) To free from a dam, mound, or other obstruction..
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..
Mounding :: Mounding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Moun.
Bank :: Bank (v. t.) To raise a mound or dike about; to inclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank..
Tumulous :: Tumulous (a.) Full of small hills or mounds; hilly; tumulose.
Barrow :: Barrow (n.) A large mound of earth or stones over the remains of the dead; a tumulus.
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..
Stannary :: Stank (n.) A dam or mound to stop water.
Mount :: Mount (v.) A bulwark for offense or defense; a mound.
Tumulate :: Tumulate (v. t.) To cover, as a corpse, with a mound or tomb; to bury..
Mound :: Mound (v. t.) To fortify or inclose with a mound.
Tell :: Tell (n.) A hill or mound.
Low :: Low (n.) A hill; a mound; a grave.
Cast :: Cast (v. t.) To throw up, as a mound, or rampart..
Hornito :: Hornito (n.) A low, oven-shaped mound, common in volcanic regions, and emitting smoke and vapors from its sides and summit..
Earthbank :: Earthbank (n.) A bank or mound of earth.
Agger :: Agger (n.) An earthwork; a mound; a raised work.
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