单词 | mounded |
释义 | moundedadj. a. Enclosed or bounded with a fence or hedge. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > a barrier > [adjective] > that will serve as a fence > having a fence or paling paled1531 impaled1549 mounded1565 palisadoed1612 infenced1613 picketed1755 palisaded1793 fenced in1957 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Ager Discretus ager..seperated: bounded: mounded. b. Confined by or fortified with a bank or embankment. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > earthwork or rampart > [adjective] rampired1582 mounded1694 ramparted1795 rathed1861 the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > [adjective] > enclosed > in or as in other specific enclosure or receptacle chamberedc1540 housed1569 bagged1572 celled1586 arboured1606 closeteda1649 vesselled1660 cabineted1680 encysted1705 caverned1734 mounded1807 castled1821 casketed1822 styed1829 tree-embowered1866 tunnelled1901 1694 A. Wood Life & Times (1894) III. 461 Rainsborow—a campe double-mounded: the inner mound neare half a mile in compass, the outer more. 1751 D. Mallet Alfred (new ed.) iii. vi. 51 Alfred rose In all his terrors; o'er the mounded camp Tempestuous drove. 1807 J. Barlow Columbiad i. 31 The lakes, high mounded, point the streams their way. 1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound iii. i. 99 Let hell unlock Its mounded oceans of tempestuous fire. 1863 G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 12 The clogged brook runs with choking sound Kneading the mounded mire. 2. Consisting of mounds or hillocks; having the form of a mound; heaped up into a mound. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > rising ground or eminence > [adjective] > hillock knolled1602 hillocky1727 mounded1764 knolly1821 moundy1851 motted1947 1764 J. Grainger Sugar-cane i. 30 O'er these, with hasty hoe, some lightly spread The mounded interval; and smooth the trench. 1843 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters I. 171 A gentle, mounded, melting undulation. 1863 T. Woolner My Beautiful Lady 151 The mounded harvest wains. 1890 Gentleman's Mag. Feb. 166 Mounded dykes crowned with dwarf oak hedges. 1938 Amer. Home Jan. 14/3 The glossy dark green, aromatic foliage makes an attractive mounded growth all summer. 1948 T. Heggen Mister Roberts xi. 148 The furrowed rows..broke and gave way for the mounded grave of a British Tommy. 1992 Gourmet Sept. 161/1 Spread a mounded teaspoon of the cheese mixture lengthwise down the middle of each eggplant slice. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1565 |
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