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mounded, a.|ˈmaʊndɪd|
[f. mound v. + -ed1.]
1.
†a. Enclosed or bounded with a fence. Obs.
b. Confined or fortified with an embankment.
1565Cooper Thesaurus s.v. Ager, Discretus ager..seperated: bounded: mounded. 1694Wood Life July (O.H.S.) III. 461 Rainsborow—a campe double-mounded: the inner mound neare half a mile in compass, the outer more. 1708J. Philips Cyder i. 12 A spacious City stood, with firmest Walls Sure mounded. 1807J. Barlow Columb. i. 211 The lakes, high mounded, point the streams their way. 1819Shelley Prometh. Unb. iii. i. 75 Let hell unlock Its mounded oceans of tempestuous fire.
2. Consisting of mounds or hillocks; having the form of a mound; heaped up into a mound.
1843Ruskin Mod. Paint. I. ii. ii. v. §8. 193 A gentle, mounded, melting undulation. 1863Woolner My Beautiful Lady 151 The mounded harvest wains. 1890Gentl. Mag. Feb. 166 Mounded dykes crowned with dwarf oak hedges. |