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berm
[ burm ]
noun
- Also berme. Fortification. a horizontal surface between the exterior slope of a rampart and the moat.
- Also called bench. any level strip of ground at the summit or sides, or along the base, of a slope.
- Also called backshore, a nearly flat back portion of a beach, formed of material deposited by the action of the waves.
- Chiefly Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. the bank of a canal or the shoulder of a road.
- Chiefly Alaska. a mound of snow or dirt, as formed when clearing land.
- a bank of earth placed against an exterior wall or walls of a house or other building as protection against extremes of temperature.
verb (used with object)
- to cover or protect with a berm:
The side walls were bermed to a height of three feet.
berm
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noun
- a narrow path or ledge at the edge of a slope, road, or canal
- the grass verge of a suburban street, usually kept mown
- fortifications a narrow path or ledge between a moat and a rampart
- military a man-made ridge of sand, designed as an obstacle to tanks, which, in crossing it, have to expose their vulnerable underparts
berm
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- A nearly horizontal or landward-sloping portion of a beach formed by the deposition of sediment by storm waves. A beach may have no berm at all, or it may have more than one berm.
- A narrow man-made ledge or shelf, as along the top or bottom of a slope.
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of berm1
Example Sentences
A snow berm left by this week’s storm obscured the camera’s view into the nest.
The van got stuck on a sand berm and its two occupants ran off, investigators said.
They have also installed thousands of sandbags, K-rails and compost filter socks — a type of berm — to keep dangerous debris from flowing into storm drains and out into the ocean.
The strong waves would be life-threatening conditions for swimmers and surfers, officials said, and would submerge sand berms.
Clearing the burned plants, amending the fire-scarred soil so it wouldn’t repel water, and buying new plants, landscaping cloth, berms to hold the soil and irrigation lines cost more than $26,000.
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