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name
A number of places in the United States:
A township in Effingham County, Illinois.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A township in McDonough County, Illinois.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A township in Warren County, Indiana.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A township in McPherson County, Kansas.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A village in Madison Parish, Louisiana.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A city in Hennepin County, Minnesota.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A township in Rock County, Minnesota.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A township in Bates County, Missouri.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Coryell County, Texas.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Kanawha County, West Virginia.
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noun
An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embankment thrown up for defense
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: bulwark, rampart
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noun
A natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll.
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Synonyms: earthen mound
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noun
Elevated area of dirt upon which the pitcher stands to pitch.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: ball-games, baseball, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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noun
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.
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noun
The mons veneris.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, slang, vulgar
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noun
A hand.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively, obsolete
Qualifier: measurement
Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
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noun
A protection; restraint; curb.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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noun
A helmet.
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Usage: obsolete
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noun
Might; size.
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Usage: obsolete
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noun
A large amount of something.
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verb
To fortify with a mound; add a barrier, rampart, etc. to.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To force or pile into a mound or mounds.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To form a mound.
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Usage: intransitive
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noun
the position on a baseball team of the player who throws the ball for a batter to try to hit
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: pitcher
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Broader terms: position
noun
structure consisting of an artificial heap or bank usually of earth or stones
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: hill
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Broader terms: structure, construction
Narrower terms: barbette, burial mound, grave mound, barrow, tumulus, embankment, snowbank, snow bank
noun
(baseball) the slight elevation on which the pitcher stands
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: hill, pitcher's mound
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Broader terms: baseball equipment
noun
a collection of objects laid on top of each other
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: pile, heap, agglomerate, cumulation, cumulus
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Broader terms: collection, aggregation, accumulation, assemblage
Narrower terms: compost heap, compost pile, dunghill, midden, muckheap, muckhill, scrapheap, shock, slagheap, stack, pyre, funeral pyre, woodpile, stockpile
noun
a small natural hill
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: knoll, hillock, hummock, hammock
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Broader terms: hill
Narrower terms: anthill, formicary, kopje, koppie, molehill
verb
form into a rounded elevation
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: shape, form, work, mold, mould, forge
Narrower terms: mound over
History
From mound.
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”), Middle Dutch mond (“protection”), Old High German munt (“hand, protection”) German Mündel (“ward”), Vormund (“guardian”)), Icelandic and Old Norse mund (“hand”), and possibly Latin manus (“hand”), Ancient Greek μάρη (márē, “hand”). Not related to mount.
Across languages
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