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(meteorology) The part of a valley or canyon wall against which a dam is constructed.
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(architecture, informal) A vestibule, foyer or entranceway with doors to the exterior on one end and doors to the interior on the other, functioning to keep indoor and outdoor air, humidity, and air temperatures separate.
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avenue (lined with trees)
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(transport, civil engineering) A tunnel driven through the base of a mountain pass, rather than through the upper slopes of the mountains.
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(military) An area of hostile territory (especially on a beach) that, when captured, serves for the continuous landing (or movement into position) of further troops and material
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(geology) A thin strip of relatively flat land bounded by steeper slopes above and below.
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A raised bank or path, especially the bank of a canal opposite the towpath.
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Alternative spelling of berm [A narrow ledge or shelf, as along the top or bottom of a slope.]
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An area of sea lying between two promontories, larger than a bay, wider than a gulf
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A high, steep bank, for example by a river or the sea, or beside a ravine or plain; a cliff with a broad face.
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The projecting upper edge of a steep place such as a hill.
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Furnished with a bulkhead or bulkheads.
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To provide berms or other secondary enclosures to guard against accidental fluid spills within.
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The slope of a curved road created to minimize the effect of centrifugal force.
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A supporting structure for a river bank, built from planks and piles.
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(engineering) A low asphalt berm with sloped face at the edge of a paved area.
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Alternative form of cat flap [Small hinged panel, usually cut into a door, with an opening just big enough for a cat to enter.]
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(obsolete, transitive) To pave, to cobble.
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(military) A hollow route, adapted to cover troops and facilitate their approach to a place.
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A door leading to a cellar.
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A passage leading to a cellar.
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(engineering) A type of watertight enclosure used to create a dry foundation for building bridges and other structures over water.
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A road built on a ledge (cliff), especially along water (a river, sea, etc).
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(rare) A corridor or passage.
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A recess or sheltered area on the slopes of a mountain.
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A narrow opening underneath the bottom of a building (or storey) used to give access to pipes, cables and other utilities
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Alternative spelling of crawl space [A narrow opening underneath the bottom of a building (or storey) used to give access to pipes, cables and other utilities]
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A low duct or tunnel designed to be traversed by crawling.
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(American spelling, Canadian spelling) A concrete margin along the edge of a road; a kerb (UK, Australia, New Zealand)
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(construction, engineering) A method of building a tunnel by digging a trench, constructing tunnel walls therein, and refilling the trench with earth.
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The top surface of a vehicle's dashboard.
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(architecture) To disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
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(architecture) The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments.
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(US) A way or road dug through a hill, or sunk below the surface of the land.
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a long mound of earth, stone, or similar material, usually built for purposes such as to hold back or store water, for protection from weather or enemies, or to support a road or railway.
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Of water: formed into a bay or bays.
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The process by which a bay is formed.
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(figuratively) Any small protected space.
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The glacis of the counterscarp, or the slope of the parapet of the covered way toward the country.
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(military) A dike of piles in the sea, a river, etc., to hinder the approach of an enemy.
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A raised way within the parapet of a fortification.
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A rock pinnacle on a mountain ridge.
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(England, especially Yorkshire, Lancashire, Manchester) A narrow passageway or alley often between terraced houses.
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The guttering of a building.
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(architecture) A ditch with one vertical side, acting as a sunken fence, designed to block the entry of animals into lawns and parks without breaking sightlines.
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A garden formed in terraces rising one above another, like those of Nebuchadnezzar at Babylon.
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(architecture) A haunch.
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(geology) The uppermost part of a valley.
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Alternative form of headspace [The space between the top of the contents of a container (such as a jar) and its seal (such as a lid).]
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Alternative form of headspace [The space between the top of the contents of a container (such as a jar) and its seal (such as a lid).]
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The vertical clearance above someone's head, as in a tunnel, doorway etc.
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The space between the top of the contents of a container (such as a jar) and its seal (such as a lid).
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An outdoor garden maze in which the walls between passages are made of vertical hedges.
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Obsolete form of embankment. [a long mound of earth, stone, or similar material, usually built for purposes such as to hold back or store water, for protection from weather or enemies, or to support a road or railway.]
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A projection in a building; also, a pier or mole; a jetty
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A system of weights (usually concrete or cast-iron blocks) used for load-testing piled foundations.
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(Britain, Australia, New Zealand) The raised edge between the pavement and the roadway, typically made of concrete though originally consisting of a line of kerbstones.
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Obsolete form of kerb. [(Britain, Australia, New Zealand) The raised edge between the pavement and the roadway, typically made of concrete though originally consisting of a line of kerbstones.]
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(horticulture) A maze formed by paths separated by high hedges.
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A shelf on which articles may be laid; also, that which resembles such a shelf in form or use, as a projecting ridge or part, or a molding or edge in joinery.
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(Britain) An area of almost perfectly flat land.
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A ledge, a terrace; a right-angled projection; a lynchet.
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A section of a canal used to raise or lower vessels
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(rare) A haven or harbour, protected with such a breakwater.
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A promontory or headland.
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A dungeon only accessible by a trapdoor at the top.
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In trench warfare parados referred to a bank of earth or similar material behind the rear of the trench, opposite the parapet, affording protection from explosions and fragments when shells or bombs overshot the trench.
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(US) A wide, flat-bottomed valley in a mountainous region.
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(obsolete except Scotland) Flat; level; (by extension) frank, on the level.
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A largely level expanse of land at a high elevation; tableland.
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(geology) A ridge, formed from the accretion of sand or gravel, on the inside curve of a meander
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A high point of land extending into a body of water, headland; cliff.
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Any extended protuberance; a projecting line or strip.
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A glacis in jetties to withstand the violence of the sea.
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An underground tunnel in a mine.
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(military) A sandbox raised on legs for soldiers to play and plan tactics.
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A coastal defence in the form of a wall or an embankment.
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(architecture, obsolete) One of the stones placed over the end of a gable, or forming the coping of a gable.
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A garden in or on a tall building, high above ground level.
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(architecture) An architectural design in which a room has a large hole in its ceiling, open to the sky.
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A tall pillar or post used to support some structure; often above water.
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(geography) A bay located within a larger bay.
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A hollow between two hills or peaks, especially with a road running through it; a vale.
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(UK, West Country) An attic or loft, notably over a shippen.
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An artificial dwelling mound found on the North European Plain, created to provide safe ground during storm surges, high tides and sea or river flooding.
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To form something into a terrace.
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(civil engineering) Any earthen embankment with a broad level top, such as those used for a canal elevated above a valley floor.
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A ridge or hollow across a road.
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A structure designed to protect the base and roots of a tree, typically used in an urban setting.
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A pit in the form of an inverted cone or pyramid, constructed as an obstacle to the approach of an enemy, and having a pointed stake in the middle.
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(obsolete) One of the tubular tunnels of the London Underground.
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(figuratively) Anything that resembles a tunnel.
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(geography) The shady side of a mountain.
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(rare or dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A passage beneath any obstruction, e.g. a roadway tunnel beneath a railway, etc.
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An underground passage, subway, tunnel.
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(architecture) the difference between the height of the last usable floor and the total height of a building, especially for tall skyscrapers
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(gymnastics) A gymnastic movement performed on this apparatus.
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(gymnastics) A layered wooden box that is padded with leather, used in gymnastics.
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(obsolete) To vault; to leap.
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(architecture) An opening through the floors of a building, as for a staircase or an elevator; a wellhole.
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A sand bar or spit at the side of a river, bay, or harbor.
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