mound : Idioms & Phrases

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burial mound

  • noun (archeology) a heap of earth placed over prehistoric tombs
    burial mound; tumulus; barrow.
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cannibal mound

  • noun ground beef mixed with raw egg and e.g. onions and capers and anchovies; eaten raw
    tartar steak; steak tartare.
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grave mound

  • noun (archeology) a heap of earth placed over prehistoric tombs
    burial mound; tumulus; barrow.
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Mound bird

  • noun large-footed short-winged birds of Australasia; build mounds of decaying vegetation to incubate eggs
    mound bird; scrub fowl; megapode; mound builder.
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  • . (Zoöl.) Same as Mound maker (below).
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mound builder

  • noun prehistoric Amerindians who built altar mounds
    Mound Builder.
  • noun large-footed short-winged birds of Australasia; build mounds of decaying vegetation to incubate eggs
    mound bird; scrub fowl; megapode; mound builder.
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Mound builders

  • noun prehistoric Amerindians who built altar mounds
    Mound Builder.
  • noun large-footed short-winged birds of Australasia; build mounds of decaying vegetation to incubate eggs
    mound bird; scrub fowl; megapode; mound builder.
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  • (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.
Webster 1913

Mound maker

  • (Zoöl.), any one of the megapodes.
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mound over

  • verb form mounds over
    • The huts can be mounded over to form shelters
  • verb form a mound over
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mound-bird

  • noun large-footed short-winged birds of Australasia; build mounds of decaying vegetation to incubate eggs
    mound bird; scrub fowl; megapode; mound builder.
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mounded over

  • adjective having a wound formed over it
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pitcher's mound

  • noun (baseball) the slight elevation on which the pitcher stands
    mound; hill.
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Shell mound

  • a mound of refuse shells, collected by aborigines who subsisted largely on shellfish. See Midden, and Kitchen middens.
Webster 1913