Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A mound of earth erected over an altar of clay on which sacrifices were burned. Altar-mounds have been discovered principally in Ohio.
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We would also refer to the fact that most of these specimens were obtained from one altar-mound.
The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races Emory Adams Allen
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'Lo you!' said Face-of-god, 'the man with the horn is gone up on to the altar-mound, and meseemeth he is setting the little end of the horn to his mouth.'
The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale William Morris 1865
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