mound

IPA: mˈaʊnd

An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embankment thrown up for defense
A natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll.
(baseball) Elevated area of dirt upon which the pitcher stands to pitch.
A ball or globe forming part of the regalia of an emperor or other sovereign. It is encircled with bands, enriched with precious stones, and surmounted with a cross.
(US, vulgar, slang) The mons veneris.
(obsolete, anatomy, measurement, figuratively) A hand.
(obsolete) A protection; restraint; curb.
(obsolete) A helmet.
(obsolete) Might; size.

Examples of "mound" in Sentences

BARTON: Today we voted to add the word mound to a national Indian monument in Georgia.
"My thought process on the mound is that I can't control anything that goes on except what I do, and that's make pitches," Carpenter said.
Manuel said he didn't use his best pinch-hitter, lefty Greg Dobbs, because Feliz "is a down hitter, and the guy on the mound is a sinkerball pitcher."
The average brush turkey mound is 4 meters in diameter and a meter high; it comprises between 2 and 4 tons of material; and it takes up to six weeks to build.
This page unsportingly suggests that the mound is a 13th-century motte which had nothing to do with Pepin, but I'll take my romance where I can find it, thanks.
"When you get ripped by your manager like we did, the best guy you can have on the mound is a dominating lefthander and he stepped up for us today," Flaherty said.
Rays designated hitter Jonny Gomes charged the mound from the dugout, jumped on Navarro and Crisp, and threw several punches that hit Crisp while he was on the ground.
Because the softball mound is so much closer to home plate than in the major leagues, Finch's pitches seem like they're whizzing by at 98 mph to baseball big-leaguers.
Carl Lumholtz describes three yácatas which he saw in the Sierra de los Tarascos: The mound is built of stones, without mortar, in the shape of a 'T, 'each arm about 50 feet long and thirty-two feet high.