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 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.
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.
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