mound

See also: Mound

English

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-Germanic *mundō (“hand”), *munduz (“protection, patron”), from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂-nt-éh₂ (“the beckoning one”), from *men-, *man-, *mar- (“hand”). 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”), Latin manus (“hand”), Ancient Greek μάρη (márē, “hand”).

Mounds of salt

mound (plural mounds)

An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embankment thrown up for defense
Synonyms: bulwark, rampart
A natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll.
(baseball) Elevated area of dirt upon which the pitcher stands to pitch.
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.
(US, vulgar, slang) The mons veneris.
(obsolete, anatomy, measurement, figuratively) A hand.
(obsolete) A protection; restraint; curb.
(obsolete) A helmet.
(obsolete) Might; size.

artificial elevation of earth

natural elevation

baseball term

part of regalia

vulva — see vulva

mound (third-person singular simple present mounds, present participle mounding, simple past and past participle mounded)

(transitive) To fortify with a mound; add a barrier, rampart, etc. to.
(transitive) To force or pile into a mound or mounds.
He mounded up his mashed potatoes so they left more space on the plate for the meat.

fortify with a mound

to pile into mounds

mound

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