Another word for mound | Synonyms for mound

Another word for mound

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mound

n.

pile, heap, knoll, hillock; see hill.

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Another word for mound

noun

A group of things gathered haphazardly:

agglomeration, bank¹, cumulus, drift, heap, hill, mass, mess, mountain, pile, shock², stack, tumble. See order

verb

To put into a disordered pile:

bank¹, drift, heap, hill, lump¹, pile (up), stack. See order

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There is an ancient Indian mound here.
After this they raised a great mound, striving to make it as high as possible.
East of the Rocky Mountains (Washington, 1891), and his Report on the Mound Explorations of the Bureau of Ethnology in the 12th Report (1894) of that Bureau, supplementing his earlier bulletins, Problem of the Ohio Mounds and the Circular, Square and Octagonal Earthworks of Ohio (1889); and W.
Road, which agrees with the generally received identification, Tell el-Ilesi, an important mound excavated for the Palestine Exploration Fund by Petrie and Bliss, 1890-1893.
Among some tribes a circular grave was dug and the body placed in it with its face towards the east, and a high mound covered with bark or thatch raised over it.

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