berm
护堤,护坡,护套,护土
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Definitions
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- : 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, beach berm. 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.
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- : to cover or protect with a berm: The side walls were bermed to a height of three feet.
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Examples
I brought that firmer spring with me just in case, but I never felt like I was getting pulled below the ideal position in the berms or the lips.
Bell and Schwarber are imperiling fans in concession lines and sunbathers on remote berms with blasts far beyond the outfield fences.
Earlier that year, heavy rains had threatened to send water pouring over the top of an ash pond’s berm at Plant Branch, which could have caused a major breach.
When Georgia Power fired up Plant Scherer’s first unit in late 1982, water and ash flowed into a giant hole buttressed by an earthen berm that stood 100 feet tall.
As I reach the berm of sand, tile and stucco that marked a kind of front line, bodies are being piled on carts in the street.
The next day U.S. and British forces drove through a breach in the high berm dividing Kuwait from Iraq.
Risberm, ris-berm′, n. a glacis in jetties to withstand the violence of the sea.
The section through the face of the bastion shows a demi-revetment with wide berm, and a hedge as an additional obstacle.
A pioneer swam across, hauled over a cable, and made it fast to the hedge on the berm.
The erection of the caisson was started, about the middle of January, on the rock berm surrounding the 20 by 50-ft.
Within a few minutes there was a very respectable earthen berm across the front of the recess.