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Mound

//maʊnd// name, noun, verb, slang

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A number of places in the United States:; A township in Effingham County, Illinois.
  2. 2
    A number of places in the United States:; A township in McDonough County, Illinois.
  3. 3
    A number of places in the United States:; A township in Warren County, Indiana.
  4. 4
    A number of places in the United States:; A township in McPherson County, Kansas.
  5. 5
    A number of places in the United States:; A village in Madison Parish, Louisiana.
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  1. 6
    A number of places in the United States:; A city in Hennepin County, Minnesota.

    "Tonka was created in 1946 by a gardening supply company in Mound, Minnesota called Mound Metalcraft, which later become Tonka Toys Incorporated."

  2. 7
    A number of places in the United States:; A township in Rock County, Minnesota.
  3. 8
    A number of places in the United States:; A township in Bates County, Missouri.
  4. 9
    A number of places in the United States:; A census-designated place in Coryell County, Texas.
  5. 10
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Kanawha County, West Virginia.
Noun
  1. 1
    An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embankment thrown up for defense
  2. 2
    the position on a baseball team of the player who throws the ball for a batter to try to hit wordnet
  3. 3
    A natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll.
  4. 4
    structure consisting of an artificial heap or bank usually of earth or stones wordnet
  5. 5
    Elevated area of dirt upon which the pitcher stands to pitch.

    "The pitcher was waiting at the mound."

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  1. 6
    (baseball) the slight elevation on which the pitcher stands wordnet
  2. 7
    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.
  3. 8
    a collection of objects laid on top of each other wordnet
  4. 9
    The mons veneris. US, slang, vulgar
  5. 10
    a small natural hill wordnet
  6. 11
    A hand. figuratively, obsolete
  7. 12
    A protection; restraint; curb. obsolete
  8. 13
    A helmet. obsolete
  9. 14
    Might; size. obsolete
  10. 15
    a large amount of something.
Verb
  1. 1
    To fortify with a mound; add a barrier, rampart, etc. to. transitive
  2. 2
    form into a rounded elevation wordnet
  3. 3
    To force or pile into a mound or mounds. transitive

    "He mounded up his mashed potatoes so they left more space on the plate for the meat."

  4. 4
    To form a mound. intransitive

    "When a wave mounds on the outside and takes its shape, a surfer quickly paddles to the peak, positions himself in its evolving momentum, swings his board around, aligns with the peak, and thrusts himself into its cascading shape."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From earlier meaning "hedge, fence", from Middle English mound, mund (“protection, boundary, raised earthen rampart”), from Old English mund (“hand, hand of protection, protector, guardianship”), from Proto-West Germanic *mundu, from Proto-Germanic *mundō (“hand”), *munduz (“protection, patron”), from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂-nt-éh₂ (“the beckoning one”), from *(s)meh₂- (“to beckon”). Cognate with Old Frisian mund (“guardianship”), Old High German munt (“hand, protection”) (German Mündel (“ward”), Vormund (“a guardian”)), Old Norse mund (“hand”) (Icelandic mund), Middle Dutch mond (“protection”), and possibly Latin manus (“hand”), Ancient Greek μάρη (márē, “hand”). Not related to mount.

Etymology 2

From earlier meaning "hedge, fence", from Middle English mound, mund (“protection, boundary, raised earthen rampart”), from Old English mund (“hand, hand of protection, protector, guardianship”), from Proto-West Germanic *mundu, from Proto-Germanic *mundō (“hand”), *munduz (“protection, patron”), from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂-nt-éh₂ (“the beckoning one”), from *(s)meh₂- (“to beckon”). Cognate with Old Frisian mund (“guardianship”), Old High German munt (“hand, protection”) (German Mündel (“ward”), Vormund (“a guardian”)), Old Norse mund (“hand”) (Icelandic mund), Middle Dutch mond (“protection”), and possibly Latin manus (“hand”), Ancient Greek μάρη (márē, “hand”). Not related to mount.

Etymology 3

From mound.

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