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Another word for earthwork

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Noun
  1. See also:

    trench

    fortification

    barrier

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Sentence Examples

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

  • This earthwork averages 250 ft.

  • Hadrian Allcroft, Earthwork of England (1909).

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

  • 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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