Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A variety of flat-topped or truncated mound, usually with a graded way to the top, and often with terraced sides, found in the eastern United States. Some of them are supposed to have been the sites of rude temples, but their use is not definitely known.
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Gab Baitha, i.e., "the ridge of the house" = "the temple-mound," on a part of which the fortress of Antonia was built.
Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897
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The bulk is not greater than that of the chief pyramid of Saccarah, which has never attracted much attention; and the height did not greatly exceed that of the chief Mexican temple-mound.
Ancient Egypt George Rawlinson 1857
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