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noun
A narrow ledge or shelf, as along the top or bottom of a slope.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A raised bank or path, especially the bank of a canal opposite the towpath.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: heelpath
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noun
One of the flat terraces on the slope of an open-pit mine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia
Topics: business, mining
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Synonyms: bench, bench floor
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noun
A terrace or shelf of sand along a beach, formed above the high tide water level by wave action.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A long mound or bank of earth, used especially as a barrier or to provide insulation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A small wall along the edge of a bench of an open-pit mine, intended to prevent items falling over the crest.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Canada, US
Topics: business, mining
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Synonyms: windrow
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A ledge between the parapet and the moat in a fortification.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A strip of land between a street and sidewalk.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: New-Zealand, Pennsylvania
Qualifier: Indiana; Ohio; Indiana; Ohio
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Synonyms: berm, besidewalk, boulevard, boulevard strip, city easement, common, county strip, curb lawn, curb strip, devil strip/devil's strip/devilstrip, drivestrip/drive strip, easement, extension lawn, furniture zone, grass bay, grassplot, hellstrip, island strip, landscape zone, long acre, median, mow strip, nature strip, neutral ground, parking, parking strip, parkrow, parkstrip/park strip, parkway, parkway strip, planter zone, planting strip, right-of-way, road allowance, road verge, roadside, shoulder, sidewalk buffer, sidewalk lawn, sidewalk plot, sidewalk strip, street lawn, subway, swale, terrace, tree belt, tree box, tree lawn, utility strip, verge
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noun
The edge of a road.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Pennsylvania, Western
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verb
To provide something with a berm
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
a narrow edge of land (usually unpaved) along the side of a road
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: shoulder
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: edge
Narrower terms: hard shoulder
noun
a narrow ledge or shelf typically at the top or bottom of a slope
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: ledge, shelf
History
From Dutch berm (“strip of roadside grass, verge”), probably via French berme, from Middle Dutch barm, baerm, barem (“verge, bank”), from Old Dutch *barm, from Proto-West Germanic *barm, from Proto-Germanic *barmaz (“edge, border, seam”).
Across languages
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