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Mound   /maʊnd/   Listen
Mound

noun
1.
(baseball) the slight elevation on which the pitcher stands.  Synonyms: hill, pitcher's mound.
2.
A small natural hill.  Synonyms: hammock, hillock, hummock, knoll.
3.
A collection of objects laid on top of each other.  Synonyms: agglomerate, cumulation, cumulus, heap, pile.
4.
Structure consisting of an artificial heap or bank usually of earth or stones.  Synonym: hill.
5.
The position on a baseball team of the player who throws the ball for a batter to try to hit.  Synonym: pitcher.  "They have a southpaw on the mound"
verb
(past & past part. mounded; pres. part. mounding)
1.
Form into a rounded elevation.



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"Mound" Quotes from Famous Books



... all clear. Where the tunnel approached close to the surface, the roof and walls had caved in. Tom had stumbled over this mound and fallen, and Jack accidentally had torn away the screen of bushes ...
— The Radio Boys with the Revenue Guards • Gerald Breckenridge
... beer-coloured water, and every kloof and donga was brimmed with flowers and ferns, she would be drawn away by these, would return, trailing after her armfuls of rare blooms, and thenceforward, until these faded, the ridgy grave-mound and the heaped cairn of boulders would be gay with them. She never took them to the house. It might have meant a beating—so ...
— The Dop Doctor • Clotilde Inez Mary Graves
... this cemetery was a little mound of water-washed rock that had endured when the rest of the stony plain was denuded in past epochs. Suddenly upon that rock appeared the shape of the most gigantic elephant that ever I beheld in all my long experience. It had one enormous tusk, but the other ...
— The Ivory Child • H. Rider Haggard
... called "the mound-builder" (Megapodius cumingi). Its eggs are highly prized by the natives as an article of food; they rob the deposit made by the birds. After each egg is deposited, the parent birds (several ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803, Volume V., 1582-1583 • Various
... heading toward the river bank. For two hundred paces or more they went thus, till, quite near to the lip of the stream, they came to a patch of reeds higher and thicker than the rest, in the centre of which was a little mound hid in a tangle of scrub and rushes. Once, perhaps a hundred or a thousand years before, some old marsh dweller had lived upon this mound, or been buried in it. At any rate, on its southern side, hidden by reeds and a withered willow, was a cavity of which the mouth could not be seen ...
— Red Eve • H. Rider Haggard


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