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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



... pinnacle or tree or tower, While earth endures, Will fall on my mound and within the hour Steal on to yours; One robin never haunt our two ...
— Old and New Masters • Robert Lynd
... he immediately recognised us in the throng, made a bow to Captain Transom, and held out his hand to Mr Bang, who was nearest to him, and shook it cordially. The procession moved on. The troops formed into three sides of a square, the remaining one being the earthen mound, that constituted the rampart of the place. A halt was called. The two firing parties advanced to the sound of muffled drums, and having arrived at the crest of the glacis, right over the counterscarp, they halted on what, in a more regular fortification, would have ...
— Tom Cringle's Log • Michael Scott
... down upon a mound To think on life, I concluded that my views were sound And got me up and turned me round, And went me ...
— Journeys to Bagdad • Charles S. Brooks
... and a rapid examination of its ruins. The massive walls of this venerable town—they were a wonder in the age of Pericles as in ours—still stand in their whole circuit, and here and there apparently in their whole hight. It is a small, steep, mound-like hill—you can walk around it in fifteen minutes—and within the walls the terraced slope, thickly sprinkled with fragments of ruins, is grown over with the tall purple flowers of the asphodel—a fit monument to the perished city. From the citadel of Tiryus the view over the wide plain ...
— Continental Monthly, Vol. II. July, 1862. No. 1. • Various
... day Olaf was engaged in the burial of the brave islanders and vikings who had fallen in the battle, and he had a mound built over them and raised stones above them to mark the place. But at night he had Sigurd Erikson's body carried down to the beach with all the other men who had been of King Valdemar's host. One of the smaller ships was then brought in to the beach, and a pyre of tarred wood and dry ...
— Olaf the Glorious - A Story of the Viking Age • Robert Leighton


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