berm
berm
Definition
berm (bʉrm)
noun
- a ledge or space between the ditch and parapet in a fortification
- ☆ Dialectal the shoulder of a road
- a narrow ledge or path as at the top or bottom of a slope, or along a beach
- a wall or mound of earth
Etymology: Fr berme & Du berm < MDu baerm: for IE base see broom
berm
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- drum: Spill control equipment including, spill pillows, absorbent pads, drum berms, drain plugs, hand pumps, neutralization solutions.
- hit: When I hit the last berm, my back wheel washed out, and I ended up in the dirt.
- have: Storage areas should be sealed with an acid-resistant material and have a containment berm.
- form: A strong swash occurs and this transports material up the beach forming a berm at the spring high tide mark.
Adjective modifier
- left: Here a new left hand berm had been constructed with a step down into the right hand berm which had been built up.
- last: When I hit the last berm, my back wheel washed out, and I ended up in the dirt.
- right: Here a new left hand berm had been constructed with a step down into the right hand berm which had been built up.
- big: They are being widened, with bigger berms, with alternative lines incorporating jumps and other features on to them.
- huge: Then trouble, a huge berm with a large mound sticking out some 1/2 way around.
- narrow: This is a wide sandy beach with a narrow backshore berm of coarser sediment supplied from local erosion of high sandstone and breccia cliffs.
Noun used with modifier
- storm: Sea wall in the foreground with storm berm to the left.
- hand: Here a new left hand berm had been constructed with a step down into the right hand berm which had been built up.
- earth: I'm guessing it's the launch site, because earth berms for blast protection were located at the southeastern part of the site.
- rock: The recharge of material at the Hinge will be placed both in front of and behind the existing rock berm.
- backshore: This normally involves foreshore erosion and, less frequently, the creation of a high backshore storm berm.
- gravel: Rapid loss of beach volume necessitated the building of a seawall founded on the backshore gravel beach berm to protect the town/village in 1830.
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