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Mounding vs Hounding - What's the difference?

mounding | hounding |

As verbs the difference between mounding and hounding

is that mounding is present participle of lang=en while hounding is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between mounding and hounding

is that mounding is a mound of material while hounding is pursuit, especially when persistent or relentless.

mounding

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A mound of material.
  • * 1866 , Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England
    • The tipping or emptying of waggons commences, and, as in embankments or moundings in a railway, they advance over the deposit as it reaches the desired height.

    hounding

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Pursuit, especially when persistent or relentless.
  • *2011 , "Embraceable you", The Economist , 30 Jul 2011:
  • *:Elsewhere, the hounding of Muhammad Yunus, a Nobel laureate and founder of the Grameen Bank who briefly flirted with politics, was vindictive.
  • (nautical) The part of a mast below the hounds and above the deck.
    • (Webster 1913)