Definition of mound

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

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Cam :: Cam (n.) A ridge or mound of earth.
Heave :: Heave (v. i.) To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound..
Tope :: Tope (n.) A moundlike Buddhist sepulcher, or memorial monument, often erected over a Buddhist relic..
Burrow :: Burrow (n.) A mound. See 3d Barrow, and Camp, n., 5..
Orb :: Orb (n.) Same as Mound, a ball or globe. See lst Mound..
Rideau :: Rideau (n.) A small mound of earth; ground slightly elevated; a small ridge.
Berry :: Berry (n.) A mound; a hillock.
Barbette :: Barbette (n.) A mound of earth or a platform in a fortification, on which guns are mounted to fire over the parapet..
Cast :: Cast (v. t.) To throw up, as a mound, or rampart..
Stannary :: Stank (n.) A dam or mound to stop water.
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..
Agger :: Agger (n.) An earthwork; a mound; a raised work.
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..
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..
Tumulous :: Tumulous (a.) Full of small hills or mounds; hilly; tumulose.
Rath :: Rath (n.) A hill or mound.
Mound :: Mound (v. t.) To fortify or inclose with a mound.
Mounded :: Mounded (imp. & p. p.) of Moun.
Dun :: Dun (n.) A mound or small hill.
Maleo :: Maleo (n.) A bird of Celebes (megacephalon maleo), allied to the brush turkey. It makes mounds in which to lay its eggs..
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