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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



... hundred people and we've named our town Louisville in honor of King Louis of France who is helping us in the East. We've got history, too, or rather it was made before we came here. An old chief, whom the whites called Tobacco, told George Rogers Clark that the Alligewi, which is their name for the Mound Builders, made their last stand here against the Shawnees, Miamis and other Indians who now roam in this region. A great battle occurred on an island at the Falls and the Mound Builders were exterminated. ...
— The Border Watch - A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand • Joseph A. Altsheler
... announce, that by the tomb of Agamemnon she discovers a lock of hair; libations yet moisten the summit of the mound, and flowers of every hue are scattered over the grave. "These," she thinks, "are signs that Orestes is returned." Electra, informing her of the fatal news, proposes that they, women as they are, shall attempt the terrible revenge which their brother can no longer execute. When Chrysothemis ...
— Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... is a mound of earth or stone worn away by erosion," answered the Professor, with an assurance that forbade any one to question the correctness ...
— The Pony Rider Boys in the Grand Canyon - The Mystery of Bright Angel Gulch • Frank Gee Patchin
... afraid I like it," said Anne. There was nothing more to be said. The silence that followed was a rather uncomfortable one. Mary fiddled uneasily with the bottom button of her pyjama jacket. Leaning back on her mound of heaped-up pillows, Anne waited and wondered what ...
— Crome Yellow • Aldous Huxley
... Hill, as a counter-attack was taking place a few minutes before 6 o'clock. We had then been at it for nearly ten hours. By this time the bombardment from both sides was stupendous; every gun on each side seemed concentrated on this one little stretch, on this small mound. ...
— One Young Man • Sir John Ernest Hodder-Williams


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