remound

• (UK) enPR: rĭmoundʹ, IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈmaʊnd/
• Rhymes: -aʊnd

A strong conjugation preterite formed on the pattern of find → found.

remound

1. (nonstandard, rare nonce word) simple past and past participle of remind
   • 1830, Filaret, “On the Tenses of Greek Verbs” in The Gentleman’s Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, ed. Sylvanus Urban, volume 100, part 2, page 125

     [W]hat should we now think of the grammar which should run thus: 1. pret. I fighted, thou fightedst, &c. 2d pret. I fought, &c. And again, 1st pret. I reminded, &c. 2d pret. I remound?

   • 1918, The Judge (Judge Publishing Company), volume 75, page unknown

     I find — that is to say, I’ve found —
     That when one knows “sink, sank and sunken,”
     He soon is strenuously remound
     He mustn’t say “blink, blank and blunken.”

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:remound.

re- +‎ mound

remound (third-person singular simple present remounds, present participle remounding, simple past and past participle remounded)

1. Restore the mound or mounds of (especially, a grave or graves).
   • 1916, Economic Entomology: Pamphlets, volume 109, page 1,130:

     In some soils, mounds made earlier wash down, thus making it necessary to remound in the fall.

   • 1995, L. R. Goldman, chapter 3, in Aletta Biersack, editor, Papuan borderlands: Huli, Duna, and Ipili perspectives on the Papua New Guinea Highlands, page 275:

     [W]omen may continue to remound old gardens for ten years or more.

   • 2006, William Gay, Twilight, MacAdam/Cage Pub., →ISBN, page 7, →ISBN:

     He drove the spade into the earth mounded atop the grave and leaning his weight into the work began to remound the earth in a pile next the grave.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:remound.
2. (chiefly in food preparation) Reform into a mound.
   • 1983, William Shurtleff [aut.] and Akiko Aoyagi [illust.], The Book of Miso: Savory, High-protein Seasoning (2nd ed.; Ten Speed Press; →ISBN, 9780898150971), page 181

     Remound koji into oval volcano shape, re-cover tray with lid set slightly ajar, and re-cover incubation box with blankets.

   • 1991, Fred Bridge, Jean F. Tibbetts, The Well-Tooled Kitchen, Morrow, page 97:

     Roll a rolling pin 1 to 2 times over the mixture to flatten the butter particles, gather into a mound again, then use the pastry blender to cut until powdery with some oatmeal-shaped flakes throughout; remound.

   • 1995, Jesse Ziff Cool, Onions: A Country Garden Cookbook, Collins Publishers San Francisco, →ISBN, page 1, →ISBN:

     As the plant grows, move the tube upward and remound the dirt to cover the base and the blanched leaves.

3. (rosiculture, rare) Bolster with a restored mound.
   • 1999, Thomas Cairns, Ortho’s All About Roses, Meredith Books, →ISBN, page 28, →ISBN:

     Watch for wrinkling on the canes — the first sign of dehydration. If this occurs, recut the canes below the wrinkling, remound the plant, and water well.

• Dunmore, mourned