mounding

as inpile
as inbank
as instack
as insock away
as inheap

Synonyms for mounding

verb gather, pack; put on top of another

Antonyms for mounding

Word Origin & History

1550s, "hedge, fence," also "embankment, dam" (a sense probably influenced by mount (n.)). The relationship between the noun and the verb is uncertain. Commonly supposed to be from Old English mund "hand, protection, guardianship" (cognate with Latin manus), but this is not certain (OED discounts it on grounds of sense). Perhaps a confusion of the native word and Middle Dutch mond "protection," used in military sense for fortifications of various types, including earthworks. From 1726 as "artificial elevation" (as over a grave); 1810 as "natural low elevation." As the place where the pitcher stands on a baseball field, from 1912.

Example Sentences for mounding

Butter circles of white bread, and spread with the chicken, mounding it in the center.

They were laid directly on the ground, with muzzles elevated by mounding up the earth.

Wedging, by billets of wood between her sides and the mounding ice, was equally ineffectual.

Usually the mounding is not performed until the shoots have made one season's growth.