mound

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 \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}.
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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.
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         To thrid the thickets or to leap the mounds. --Dryden.
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   {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}.
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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, LA -- U.S. village in Louisiana
   Population (2000):    12
   Housing Units (2000): 5
   Land area (2000):     0.243460 sq. miles (0.630559 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    0.243460 sq. miles (0.630559 sq. km)
   FIPS code:            52565
   Located within:       Louisiana (LA), FIPS 22
   Location:             32.337430 N, 91.025694 W
   ZIP Codes (1990):     71282
   Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   Headwords:
    Mound, LA
    Mound
    

Mound, MN -- U.S. city in Minnesota
   Population (2000):    9435
   Housing Units (2000): 4118
   Land area (2000):     2.944955 sq. miles (7.627398 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    1.971012 sq. miles (5.104897 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    4.915967 sq. miles (12.732295 sq. km)
   FIPS code:            44476
   Located within:       Minnesota (MN), FIPS 27
   Location:             44.934912 N, 93.656080 W
   ZIP Codes (1990):     55364
   Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   Headwords:
    Mound, MN
    Mound
    

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