Usually means: Excavation and construction involving soil.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word earthwork:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. earthwork: Merriam-Webster
  2. earthwork: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. earthwork: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. earthwork: Collins English Dictionary
  5. earthwork: Vocabulary.com
  6. Earthwork, earthwork: Wordnik
  7. earthwork: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. earthwork: Wiktionary
  9. earthwork: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. earthwork: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. earthwork: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Earthwork, earthwork: Dictionary.com
  13. Earthwork (archaeology), Earthwork (military), Earthwork: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Earthwork: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. earthwork: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. earthwork: Rhymezone
  17. Earthwork: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. earthwork: FreeDictionary.org
  19. earthwork: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. earthwork: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. earthwork: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. earthwork: Encyclopedia

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Earthwork: Dictionary of Military Architecture

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▸ noun:  Any structure made from earth, especially an embankment used for fortification or flood control.

Similar:
bank, earthbank, rockfill, pilework, earth moving, warping bank, revetment, enrockment, earth-moving, epaulement, more...

Phrases:
boundary earthwork, more...

Adjectives:
small, ancient, circular, linear, large, great, old, strong, prehistoric, defensive, rectangular

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Similar:
bank, earthbank, rockfill, pilework, earth moving, warping bank, revetment, enrockment, earth-moving, epaulement, more...

Phrases:
boundary earthwork, more...

Adjectives:
small, ancient, circular, linear, large, great, old, strong, prehistoric, defensive, rectangular



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