Crossword clues for mound
mound
- Pile of money, money, money - small amount dropped off
- Part of dynamo under barrow
- Heap; small hill
- Small hill
- Little hill
- Earth bank
- Pitching perch
- Spot for a pitcher
- Rubber's spot
- Pitcher's platform
- Pile of earth
- Hill, to a pitcher
- Hill for a pitcher
- Heap or pile
- Burial bulge
- Ace's location
- "Inside the Termite ___" Killing Joke
- Pitcher's place
- Knoll
- Diamond center
- Center of a 57-Across
- (in baseball) the slight elevation on which the pitcher stands
- A small natural hill
- A collection of objects laid on top of each other
- Structure consisting of an artificial heap or bank usually of earth or stones
- The position on a baseball team of the player who throws the ball for a batter to try to hit
- Pitcher's perch
- Pitcher's spot
- Tumulus
- Anthill
- Diamond's center
- Hillock
- Guy quits declining small rise
- Large hill finally converted to small one
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mound \Mound\ (mound), n. [F. monde the world, L. mundus. See Mundane.] 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; -- called also globe.
Mound \Mound\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mounded; p. pr. & vb. n. Mounding.] To fortify or inclose with a mound.
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; a rampart; also, a natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll.
To thrid the thickets or to leap the mounds.
--Dryden.
Mound bird. (Zo["o]l.) See moundbird in the vocabulary.
Mound builders (Ethnol.), the tribe, or tribes, of North American aborigines who built, in former times, extensive mounds of earth, esp. in the valleys of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers. Formerly they were supposed to have preceded the Indians, but later investigations go to show that they were, in general, identical with the tribes that occupied the country when discovered by Europeans.
Mound maker (Zo["o]l.), any one of the megapodes. See also moundbird in the vocabulary.
Shell mound, a mound of refuse shells, collected by aborigines who subsisted largely on shellfish. See Midden, and Kitchen middens.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1550s, "hedge, fence," also "embankment, dam" (a sense probably influenced by mount (n.)). The relationship between the noun and the verb is uncertain. Commonly supposed to be from Old English mund "hand, protection, guardianship" (cognate with Latin manus), but this is not certain (OED discounts it on grounds of sense). Perhaps a confusion of the native word and Middle Dutch mond "protection," used in military sense for fortifications of various types, including earthworks. From 1726 as "artificial elevation" (as over a grave); 1810 as "natural low elevation." As the place where the pitcher stands on a baseball field, from 1912.
1510s, "to enclose with a fence;" c.1600 as "to enclose with an embankment;" see mound (n.). From 1859 as "to heap up." Related: Mounded; mounding.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context obsolete anatomy measurement figuratively English) A hand. 2 (context obsolete English) A protection; restraint; curb. 3 (context obsolete English) A helmet. 4 (context obsolete English) might; size. 5 An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embankment thrown up for defense; a bulwark; a rampart. 6 A natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll. 7 (context baseball English) Elevated area of dirt upon which the pitcher stands to pitch. 8 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. 9 (context US vulgar slang English) The mons veneris. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To fortify with a mound; add a barrier, rampart, etc. to. 2 (context transitive English) To force or pile into a mound or mounds.
WordNet
v. form into a rounded elevation; "mound earth"
n. (baseball) the slight elevation on which the pitcher stands [syn: hill, pitcher's mound]
a small natural hill [syn: knoll, hillock, hummock, hammock]
a collection of objects laid on top of each other [syn: pile, heap, cumulus]
structure consisting of an artificial heap or bank usually of earth or stones; "they built small mounds to hide behind" [syn: hill]
the position on a baseball team of the player who throws the ball for a batter to try to hit; "he has played every position except pitcher"; "they have a southpaw on the mound" [syn: pitcher]
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 5
Land area (2000): 0.243460 sq. miles (0.630559 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.243460 sq. miles (0.630559 sq. km)
FIPS code: 52565
Located within: Louisiana (LA), FIPS 22
Location: 32.337430 N, 91.025694 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 71282
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Mound
Housing Units (2000): 4118
Land area (2000): 2.944955 sq. miles (7.627398 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 1.971012 sq. miles (5.104897 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 4.915967 sq. miles (12.732295 sq. km)
FIPS code: 44476
Located within: Minnesota (MN), FIPS 27
Location: 44.934912 N, 93.656080 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 55364
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Mound
Wikipedia
Mounds are half-plant, half-human creatures in the paintings and writings of artist Trenton Doyle Hancock. He explained in an art21 interview that the mounds were created thousands of years ago, when an ape man "masturbated into a field of flowers and its seed spread to the ground to for a mound in which there nasty asses could grow up and rape flowers". Hancock's mounds resemble black and white striped hills, with tree-like skeletons and roughly human-like heads. Mounds represent good in the artist's own depiction of a spiritual struggle between good and evil (evil being represented by vegans). In Hancock's art, the mounds are an ancient and primal species, with deep connections to nature, the oldest of which is known as The Legend.
Paintings of mounds, including The Legend, are currently featured in the exhibit "Moments in Mound History" at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
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 on any surface. Artificial mounds have been created for a variety of reasons throughout history, including ceremonial ( platform mound), burial ( tumulus), and commemorative purposes (e.g. Kościuszko Mound).
A mound is an artificial heap or pile, especially of earth, rocks, or sand.
Mound and Mounds may also refer to:
- Mound (creature), a half-plant, half-human creature in the paintings and writings of artist Trenton Doyle Hancock
- Pitchers mound, the raised surface on a baseball diamond from which pitches are thrown towards home plate
- Mounds (candy), a candy bar produced by Hershey's
- Monumental earthwork mound built by prehistoric Mound builder (people)
In places:
- Mound, Louisiana, United States
- Mound, Minnesota, United States
- Mound, Texas, United States
- Mound, West Virginia
- The Mound, a street in Edinburgh, Scotland, linking the Old Town and the New Town
- Mounds, Illinois, United States
- Mounds, Oklahoma, United States
- Mound Creek, a stream in Minnesota
- Mound Laboratories, a nuclear laboratory in Miamisburg, Ohio that was a part of the Manhattan Project
See also:
- Mound builder (disambiguation)
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.