Mound
A mound is a general term for an artificial heaped pile of earth, gravel, sand, rocks, or debris. The most common use is in reference to natural earthen formation such as hills and mountains, particularly if they appear artificial. The term may also be applied to 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).
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... Mound is an unincorporated community in Coryell County, Texas, United States ... Although Mound is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP code of 76558 ... Mound was settled early in the 1850s, before most other communities in Coryell County it did not receive a railroad line until 1882 or a post office until 1884 ...
... Most of the residential architecture in Scales Mound is of traditional 19th-century forms I-house, gable-front, cottages or T and L shaped plans ... None of the houses in Scales Mound appear to be architect-designed and generally contain scaled down elements of Stick style, Eastlake and Queen Anne styles, often on the same house ... is prevalent among the homes and buildings in Scales Mound ...
... Mound Laboratories in Miamisburg, Ohio was an Atomic Energy Commission (later Department of Energy) facility for Nuclear weapon research during the Cold War ... Mound produced detonators, cable assemblies, timers, firing sets, and other equipment ... In 1954 Mound began working with Tritium ...
... of the Spanish word “alambique or still” and of zapoteco “Pityec” that would translate as mound, hence the name would mean “the still mound” Lambityeco is a small part of the larger site known as ... The two main structures at Lambityeco are Mound 190 and Mound 195 ... Mound 190 is an elite residence with the entrance flanked by two imposing Cocijo masks, the Zapotec rain god ...
... Sellars Indian Mound is a Mississippian culture archaeological site located in Wilson County, Tennessee near Lebanon ... The platform mound was the site of a settlement from about 1000 to 1300 CE ...
More definitions of "mound":
- (noun): Structure consisting of an artificial heap or bank usually of earth or stones.
Synonyms: hill
- (noun): The position on a baseball team of the player who throws the ball for a batter to try to hit.
Example: "They have a southpaw on the mound"
Synonyms: pitcher
- (verb): Form into a rounded elevation.
Example: "Mound earth"
Famous quotes containing the word mound:
““... It is not the stones,
But the child’s mound ...”
“Don’t, don’t, don’t,
don’t,” she cried.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“Why should not our whole life and its scenery be actually thus fair and distinct? All our lives want a suitable background. They should at least, like the life of the anchorite, be as impressive to behold as objects in a desert, a broken shaft or crumbling mound against a limitless horizon.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Worn down by the hoofs of millions of half-wild Texas cattle driven along it to the railheads in Kansas, the trail was a bare, brown, dusty strip hundreds of miles long, lined with the bleaching bones of longhorns and cow ponies. Here and there a broken-down chuck wagon or a small mound marking the grave of some cowhand buried by his partners “on the lone prairie” gave evidence to the hardships of the journey.”
—For the State of Kansas, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)