Earthwork Definition

ûrthwûrk
earthworks
noun
An embankment made by piling up earth, esp. as a fortification.
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The work of excavating or building embankments.
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A work of art, usually massive in scale, incorporating a natural feature of an area, as a groove sculpted into a desert mesa or a wheat field planted in geometric patterns.
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Noun

Singular:
earthwork
Plural:
earthworks

Earthwork Sentence Examples

  • One of the hills in the vicinity is fortified with a great ancient earthwork and ditch.

  • This earthwork averages 250 ft.

  • One cannon ball after another whistled by and struck the earthwork, a soldier, or a gun.

  • Framlingham (Frendlingham, Framalingaham) in early Saxon times was probably the site of a fortified earthwork to which St Edmund the Martyr is said to have fled from the Danes in 870.

  • An earthwork known as Castle Rough, in the marshes below Milton, was probably the work of Hasten the Dane in 892, and Bayford Castle, a mile distant, occupies the site of one said to have been built in opposition by King Alfred, Tong Castle is about 2 m.

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