Definitions
the position on a baseball team of the player who throws the ball for a batter to try to hit
Word origin
From earlier meaning "hedge, fence", from Middle English mound, mund (“protection, boundary, raised earthen rampart”), from Old English mund (“hand, hand of protection, protector, guardianship”), from Proto-West Germanic *mundu, from Proto-Germanic *mundō (“hand”), *munduz (“protection, patron”), from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂-nt-éh₂ (“the beckoning one”), from *(s)meh₂- (“to beckon”).
Used in a sentence
“The pitcher was waiting at the mound.”
“a mound of mashed potato”
“He mounded up his mashed potatoes so they left more space on the plate for the meat.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Raised heap”5 letters
02“Raised pile”5 letters
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