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nouna mound built over a grave or graves.Compare barrow2 (def. 1). Origin of burial moundFirst recorded in 1850–55 Words nearby burial moundBurgundy trefoil, burhel, Buri, burial, burial ground, burial mound, Buriat, Buridan's ass, buried flap, buried suture, burier Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for burial moundAmong these is the stone which once crowned the burial-mound on the plain of Marathon. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume IV|Various Then the Kings and Princes would have made him a burial-mound worthy of his name and his deeds. The Adventures of Odysseus and The Tales of Troy|Padriac Colum That this was not likely to have been a burial-mound may be presumed from its formation. The Prehistoric World|E. A. Allen Peristalith, pe-ris′ta-lith, n. a series of standing stones surrounding a barrow or burial-mound. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R)|Various
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