A natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll.
Elevated area of dirt upon which the pitcher stands to pitch.
The pitcher was waiting at the mound.
To fortify with a mound; add a barrier, rampart, etc. to.
A number of places in the United States:
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...
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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.
To form a mound.
When a wave mounds on the outside and takes its shape, a surfer quickly paddles to the peak, positions himself in its evolving momentum, swings his board around, aligns with the peak, and thrusts himself into its cascading shape.