Meanings of rammed earth in English

The fortifications looked to Temper like nothing more solid than simple rammed earth.

Probably got rammed earth behind those walls, but they're not really expecting direct artillery fire.

Some of New Zealand's rammed earth house houses date back to the 1800s and are still going strong.

The rammed earth is stunning.

Most houses were low one-story affairs that were made of rammed earth and could withstand even the worst storms.

Last year a rammed earth house in a small Chinese village won the award for World Building of the Year.

But wine casks full of rammed earth had been hurriedly piled there in case the mad English should make the attempt.

They lived in thatched houses constructed of rammed earth and plaster, with beaten floors on which dry grass was strewn as carpet.

Our final stop-off was at Port Phillip Estate, impressive for its rammed earth architecture and calming country views as well as its wine.

The purpose is not to make rammed earth or cement, but only to reestablish capillarity by having firm soil under a shallow, fist-sized depression.

A cemetery dating from French times had been destroyed to make way for it, and the whitewashed walls were all of rammed earth and bones.

Rammed earth walls here and there, pottery shards, flint, bronze and iron artifacts and that's it.

I edge through the tunnel under the walls-rammedearth overhead, frozen like cement-andpeer round the corner at the blockhouse.