mound

6 definitions found

mound - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Mound \Mound\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mounded; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Mounding.]
     To fortify or inclose with a mound.
     [1913 Webster] moundbird

  Mound \Mound\ (mound), n. [F. monde the world, L. mundus. See
     Mundane.]
     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.
     [1913 Webster]

  Mound \Mound\, n. [OE. mound, mund, protection, AS. mund
     protection, hand; akin to OHG. munt, Icel. mund hand, and
     prob. to L. manus. See Manual.]
     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.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           To thrid the thickets or to leap the mounds. --Dryden.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Mound bird. (Zool.) See moundbird in the vocabulary.
  
     Mound builders (Ethnol.), the tribe, or tribes, of North
        American aborigines who built, in former times, extensive
        mounds of earth, esp. in the valleys of the Mississippi
        and Ohio Rivers. Formerly they were supposed to have
        preceded the Indians, but later investigations go to show
        that they were, in general, identical with the tribes that
        occupied the country when discovered by Europeans.
  
     Mound maker (Zool.), any one of the megapodes. See also
        moundbird in the vocabulary.
  
     Shell mound, a mound of refuse shells, collected by
        aborigines who subsisted largely on shellfish. See
        Midden, and Kitchen middens.
        [1913 Webster]

mound - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  mound
      n 1: (baseball) the slight elevation on which the pitcher stands
           [syn: mound, hill, pitcher's mound]
      2: a small natural hill [syn: knoll, mound, hillock,
         hummock, hammock]
      3: a collection of objects laid on top of each other [syn:
         pile, heap, mound, agglomerate, cumulation,
         cumulus]
      4: structure consisting of an artificial heap or bank usually of
         earth or stones; "they built small mounds to hide behind"
         [syn: mound, hill]
      5: the position on a baseball team of the player who throws the
         ball for a batter to try to hit; "he has played every
         position except pitcher"; "they have a southpaw on the mound"
         [syn: pitcher, mound]
      v 1: form into a rounded elevation; "mound earth"

mound - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :

  Mound, LA (village, FIPS 52565)
    Location: 32.33679 N, 91.02147 W
    Population (1990): 16 (5 housing units)
    Area: 0.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 71282
  Mound, MN (city, FIPS 44476)
    Location: 44.93365 N, 93.66015 W
    Population (1990): 9634 (3965 housing units)
    Area: 7.6 sq km (land), 5.1 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 55364

mound - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  193 Moby Thesaurus words for "mound":
     abatis, advanced work, anthill, arch, arch dam, backstop,
     balistraria, bamboo curtain, bank, bank up, banquette, bar,
     barbed-wire entanglement, barbican, barrage, barricade, barrier,
     barrow, bartizan, bastion, battlement, bear-trap dam, beaver dam,
     boom, boundary stone, brae, brass, breakwater, breastwork,
     brick wall, buffer, bulkhead, bulwark, bust, butte, cairn,
     casemate, cenotaph, cheval-de-frise, circumvallation, cock,
     cofferdam, column, contravallation, counterscarp, cromlech, cross,
     cup, curtain, cyclolith, dam, defense, demibastion, dike, ditch,
     dolmen, down, drawbridge, drift, drumlin, dune, earthwork,
     elevation, embankment, enclosure, entanglement, escarp, escarpment,
     fell, fence, fieldwork, foothills, footstone, fortalice,
     fortification, gate, glacis, grave, gravestone, gravity dam, groin,
     haycock, haymow, hayrick, haystack, headstone, heap, heap up, hill,
     hillock, hoarstone, hummock, hump, hydraulic-fill dam, inscription,
     iron curtain, jam, jetty, kitchen midden, knob, knoll,
     leaping weir, levee, logjam, loophole, lunette, machicolation,
     mantelet, marker, mass, mausoleum, megalith, memento, memorial,
     memorial arch, memorial column, memorial statue, memorial stone,
     menhir, merlon, milldam, moat, mole, molehill, monolith, monticle,
     monticule, monument, moor, mountain, mow, necrology, obelisk,
     obituary, outwork, palisade, parados, parapet, pile, pile up,
     pillar, plaque, portcullis, postern gate, prize, pyramid, rampart,
     ravelin, redan, redoubt, reliquary, remembrance, ribbon, rick,
     rise, roadblock, rock-fill dam, rostral column, sally port,
     sand dune, scarp, sconce, seawall, shaft, shock, shrine,
     shutter dam, slope, snowdrift, stack, stack up, stela, stockade,
     stone, stone wall, stupa, swell, tablet, tell, tenaille,
     testimonial, tomb, tombstone, tope, tor, trophy, tumulus,
     vallation, vallum, wall, weir, wicket dam, work