gound

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments (28)  · 
It is able to tackle slops and not only flat gound, as long as they are no steeper than 30 degrees.

View all »
Examples (40)

  • OCRRA is asking that you remove all ornaments, wires, tinsel, and other items from the tree before dropping it off; the trees will be gound up in the spring and used as mulch by landscapers. —  News Channel 9: Local News
  • It is able to tackle slops and not only flat gound, as long as they are no steeper than 30 degrees. —  Ubergizmo
  • The sky is milky white; the gound is white, broken only by the green of a few shrubs and the skeletal remains of denuded trees. —  Latest entries from endlesslyrocking.blog-city.com
  • I have taken the interior out to check if I left a gound undone. no bueno. —  Lincoln vs Cadillac
  • Gardner, who scored his fourth goal of the season to round off the rout, was in no doubt that the effort put in on the training gound was a contributary factor.
 

Tags

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 62 times.

On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Etymologies (1)

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (1)

  1. Early modern English also gownd; from Middle English gownde, from Anglo-Saxon gund, matter, pus, poison. Hence, in comp., with a disguise of the orig. form, groundsel, q. v.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »

If you'd like to prod us on getting a pronunciation for this word, sign in (or sign up) and let us know.

Charts

frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

We are still working on calculating this word's frequency.

Recently looked up

vernal · contraire · kleptocracy · eclectic · assassin

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

eu oi oìa u ou e u oìa · the octopi are dry · Kansas City · spell it rite · put it in your pocket