Earthwork Synonyms

ûrthwûrk
Work prepared for defense
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. embankment
  2. fortification
  3. dugout
An earthen embankment, especially one used as a fortification.
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. bulwark

Words Related to Earthwork

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. barrier
  2. trench
  3. hillfort
  4. henge
  5. mound
  6. cropmarks
  7. trackway
  8. vallum
  9. lynchet
  10. cropmark
  11. farmstead
  12. post-holes
  13. hill-forts
  14. tumulus

Earthwork Sentence Examples

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

  • This earthwork averages 250 ft.

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

  • Framlingham (Frendlingham, Framalingaham) in early Saxon times was probably the site of a fortified earthwork to which St Edmund the Martyr is said to have fled from the Danes in 870.

  • 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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