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A collection of objects laid on top of each other
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mound
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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; ...
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A mound is a heaped pile of earth , gravel , sand , rocks , or debris . Most commonly, mounds are earthen formations such as hills and mountains , particularly if they appear artificial. A mound may be any rounded area of topographically higher elevation ...
Usage examples of mound.
Easter Sunday and the glassy balsamines, and little mounds of pebbles where he deposited the lizards that he caught over and over again, inconsolable that none would stay and become his pet, but always eager and full of hope when he had captured a new one.
An incised ornament of this character, possibly derived from basketry by copying the twisted fillets or their impressions in the clay, is very common on the pottery of the mounds of the Mississippi Valley, and its variants form a most interesting study.
The blaeberry bushes were thick there and she had scrambled up a mound to get to the big berries, and her scrambling must have loosened something because she had suddenly to hang on and then the earth had given way beneath her.
Her creamy mounds were squished against the table, but soon they would be branding his chest.
More burnable materials, which had been piled into mounds at the opening, were lit in an attempt to keep the frightened animals inside.
The leather bustier slipped apart, revealing the deep cleavage of two creamy mounds rising and falling.
Chancellor in sentences marked by such locutions as: forgetful of Being, mound of bones, structure of care, Stutthof, Todtnau, and concentration camp.
Duppra Mallat half seen inside the chair, a massive form, a curve of cheek, a mound of arm, long and sweeping, the flesh smooth and solid as polished stone.
She shivered and moaned softly, the colour draining from her face, as she pressed her body closer to him and he found the swollen mound of her sex between meaty muscular thighs.
The ground shook anew, and Mirt disappeared down a sliding mound of rubble as stones broke free from buildings all around and plunged to the streets.
By the side of the road, where the track from the top of the common crossed it at right angles and ran through a gate past the narrow wood, was a thin mound of turf, six feet by one, with a moorstone to the west, and on it someone had thrown a blackthorn spray and a handful of bluebells.
In one hand, she carried a plate mounded with freshly ground sirloin, in the other, a second plate with the rest of the ingredients, and an egg in an egg cup.
Magrid had her mantle up around her hips, and Julian was pumping away, his face buried in her mounded bosom.
On the third day we passed Mhag Fal, and I saw Tara in the distance, the mounded hill crowned by its double-ringed timber palisade.
He just stared out the window again, at the layer of snow, smooth over rolling lawns and softly mounded over shrubs and steps and retaining walls.