Mound - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: moundmoundbird
Any of several large footed short winged birds of Australasia which build mounds of decaying vegetation to incubate eggs Called also mound builder mound maker megapode brush turkey and scrub fowl...
Bank
A mound pile or ridge of earth raised above the surrounding level hence anything shaped like a mound or ridge of earth as a bank of clouds a bank of snow...
Kitchen middens
Relics of neolithic man found on the coast of Denmark consisting of shell mounds some of which are ten feet high one thousand feet long and two hundred feet wide The name is applied also to similar mounds found on the American coast from Canada to Florida made by the North American Indians...
Barbette
A mound of earth or a platform in a fortification on which guns are mounted to fire over the parapet...
Dun
A mound or small hill...
Earthbank
A bank or mound of earth...
VerbarHornito
A low oven shaped mound common in volcanic regions and emitting smoke and vapors from its sides and summit...
Imbankment
The act of surrounding with a bank a bank or mound raised for defense a roadway etc an embankment See Embankment...
Knoll
A little round hill a mound a small elevation of earth the top or crown of a hill...
lowan
The Australian moundbird Leipoa ocellata it incubates eggs naturally in sandy mounds...
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