The removal of earth from its natural position.\ (Source: HARRIS)
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.
6 He pointed out over the maze of ditches and earthworks and foundations.
7 Local tradition gives to these ancient earthworks the name of Attila's Camp.
8 This also was fortified by water and earthworks , but not so strongly.
9 Johnston believed that Banks, behind the earthworks at Strasburg, was securely sheltered.
10 He regained the earthworks , now a bloodied steaming heap of half-dismembered corpses.
11 These earthworks have been considered Saxon, but later opinion labels them post-Conquest.
12 He has designed 200-mile-long earthworks for uranium-mine tailings on the Colorado Plateau.
13 It has dug no trenches, built no earthworks , thrown up no abatis!
14 Areas monitored included those where earthworks and harvesting had recently happened.
15 Not far from him, Laveaux pulled up his horse and faced the earthworks .
16 Here the enemy was formed in force, with a line of strong earthworks .
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