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Meanings of earth work in English
General term to describe artificial changes in land level.
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Examples for "earthworks"
Examples for "earthworks"
1
Here was a battery with earthworks; there, a fort; beyond, a signal-staff.
2
We kept the earthworks and trenches of the front on our right.
3
Now the ramparts and earthworks are overrun and almost hidden by roses.
4
The messenger would have to run the gauntlet of the enemy's earthworks.
5
Several had been posted behind some earthworks thrown up by the enemy.
1
It is surrounded by an earthwork fortification, having at one time undergone a siege during the war waged by Charles XII against Peter the Great.
Usage of earth work in English
1
There were the men who unloaded the trucks, the labourers who did the earth work, and the more skilled hands who levelled it.
2
Fort Marshal was an earth work, a parapet with bastions, erected on an eminence just east of Baltimore, commanding the harbor and the city.
3
The negroes are busily engaged throwing up earth works and building stockades.
4
Aggregates sector includes aggregates used for earth works, in the manufacturing of asphalt, rip-rap for stabilization.
5
The earth works of the Mound Builders must be regarded as the sites of their villages.
6
Camelot today-onlythe earth works are left
7
Under their feet the earth worked and moved as if boa constrictors were wriggling down there soft bodies, lightly covered.
8
For the prosecution the earth works were therefore done without authorisation, which means those responsible risk jail terms of up to two years.
9
He said work on the Convention Centre Precinct site would begin immediately, starting with the rerouting of telecommunications and other enabling earth works.
10
They agree in machinery; almost every great religion on earth works with the same external methods, with priests, scriptures, altars, sworn brotherhoods, special feasts.
11
"But," Zezdon Afthen asked, "while you men of Earth work on this problem, what is there for us?
Translations for earth work
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