MOUNDING
Verb
mounding
present participle of mound
Noun
mounding (plural moundings)
A mound of material.
Anagrams
• Mundingo
Source: Wiktionary
MOUND
Mound, n. Etym: [F. monde the world, L. mundus. See Mundane.]
Definition: 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, n. Etym: [OE. mound, mund, protection, AS. mund protection,
hand; akin to OHG. munt, Icel. mund hand, and prob. to L. manus. See
Manual.]
Definition: 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. (Zoöl.) Same as Mound maker (below).
– 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 (Zoöl.), any one of the megapodes.
– Shell mound, a mound of refuse shells, collected by aborigines
who subsisted largely on shellfish. See Midden, and Kitchen middens.
Mound, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mounded; p. pr. & vb. n. Mounding.]
Definition: To fortify or inclose with a mound.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition