Meaning of EARTHWORK
| Pronunciation: | | 'urth`wurk
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| | Definition: | | [n] an earthen rampart |
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| | See Also: | | bulwark, rampart, wall | |
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| | Definition: | | \Earth"work`\, n.
1. (Mil.) Any construction, whether a temporary breastwork or
permanent fortification, for attack or defense, the
material of which is chiefly earth.
2. (Engin.)
(a) The operation connected with excavations and
embankments of earth in preparing foundations of
buildings, in constructing canals, railroads, etc.
(b) An embankment or construction made of earth.
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| | Related Terms: | | abatis, advanced work, arch dam, backstop, balistraria, bamboo curtain, bank, banquette, bar, barbed-wire entanglement, barbican, barrage, barricade, barrier, bartizan, bastion, battlement, bear-trap dam, beaver dam, boom, breakwater, breastwork, brick wall, buffer, bulkhead, bulwark, casemate, cheval-de-frise, circumvallation, cofferdam, contravallation, counterscarp, curtain, dam, defense, demibastion, dike, ditch, drawbridge, embankment, enclosure, entanglement, escarp, escarpment, fence, fieldwork, fortalice, fortification, gate, glacis, gravity dam, groin, hydraulic-fill dam, iron curtain, jam, jetty, leaping weir, levee, logjam, loophole, lunette, machicolation, mantelet, merlon, milldam, moat, mole, mound, outwork, palisade, parados, parapet, portcullis, postern gate, rampart, ravelin, redan, redoubt, roadblock, rock-fill dam, sally port, scarp, sconce, seawall, shutter dam, stockade, stone wall, tenaille, vallation, vallum, wall, weir, wicket dam, work |
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