earthwork – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
earthwork
n.
fortification, embankment (made of earth)
Earthworks
Earthworks may refer to:
- Earthworks (archaeology), human-made constructions that modify the land contour
- Earthworks (engineering), civil engineering works created by moving or processing quantities of soil
- Earthworks (military), military fortifications built in the field during a campaign or siege
- Earthworks (company), audio equipment company
- Earthworks, a novel by Brian Aldiss
- Earthworks (band), a jazz band led by drummer Bill Bruford
- "Earthworks" (song), song by Kerbdog
- Earthworks High School, an experimental school in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, 1971–1978
- Geoglyph(s)
- Land art or Earth art
earthwork
Noun
1. an earthen rampart
(hypernym) rampart, bulwark, wall
Earthwork
(n.)
The operation connected with excavations and embankments of earth in preparing foundations of buildings, in constructing canals, railroads, etc.
(n.)
Any construction, whether a temporary breastwork or permanent fortification, for attack or defense, the material of which is chiefly earth.
(n.)
An embankment or construction made of earth.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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earthwork
Synonyms and related words:
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,
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
