(n.) Any construction, whether a temporary breastwork or permanent fortification, for attack or defense, the material of which is chiefly earth.
(n.) The operation connected with excavations and embankments of earth in preparing foundations of buildings, in constructing canals, railroads, etc.
(n.) An embankment or construction made of earth.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is an enormous earthwork henge, roughly 180m across, with a stone passage tomb at its centre.
(2) Earthworks were started in late 2011, while the route was still being finessed, and continued despite the difficulties caused by torrential rain that has fallen in the region over the last year.
(3) Risk factors have been shown to be stays in hotels and hospitals, especially if the rooms were subject to faulty air conditioning, water containers or to earthworks.
(4) Earthworks is a US-based non-profit organisation which aims to protect communities and the environment from the impacts of irresponsible mineral and energy development.
(5) When excavations started here for the 1988 Olympics, vast third-century earthworks were discovered.
(6) "I'm out of here," said Simon Vose (video) as an inflatable HS2 white elephant was deployed in front of his home in the Cheshire hamlet of Hoo Green which either faces demolition or massive earthworks from the supertrain's link between Manchester and Birmingham.
(7) Earthworks' crops of vegetables and fruits are even certified organic.
(8) he calls out as he pushes a hand plough through the soil of the Earthworks Urban Farm.
(9) The project will be staged over a number of years, and any impacts on groundwater are expected to occur after work commences on the bulk earthworks (box cut) required for underground or open-cut mining.” The spokesman added that Adani will be expected to “actively manage” the mining site for endangered species while replacement habitat is found.
(10) Crouch has tested the soil that Earthworks farms, and though frequently poor in nutrients, it's usually not polluted.
(11) Estimates from Earthworks suggest that Freeport dumps as much as 200,000 tonnes of mine waste , known as tailings, directly into the Aikwa delta system every day .
(12) Follow limestone cliffs and skirt sheltered bays, past ancient earthworks.
(13) If we stay in Texas, we just decide to stay and fight it’.” She talked to Sharon Wilson, a local organizer for Earthworks, and the two women began to speak to neighbours.
(14) In the past he has described the NHS in Wales as a national scandal and even claimed Offa’s Dyke – the ancient earthwork that separates England and Wales – as the “line between life and death ”.
(15) The risk factors for this group are as follows: work in the atmosphere of high dust content with air supply by means of air conditioners, contact with soil in the process of earthwork.
(16) Council records also show TIGCS has meanwhile been building without first getting planning approval facilities including the overhaul and alterations of Menie House to create the hotel; new entrance walls and distinctive Trump-branded black and gold entrance signs on the A90 main road; two 25-metre-high flagpoles; a stone golf bag store; a “soakaway” for sewage runoff; lighting and earthworks for building the clubhouse carpark.
(17) It should send a signal to industry that if the people in Texas – where fracking was invented – can’t live with it, nobody can,” said Sharon Wilson, the Texas organiser for EarthWorks, who lives in Denton.
(18) He thought it was likely the earthworks had been destroyed since the photograph was taken, since Google Earth just showed a confusing jumble of tracks.
(19) A 2012 report from Earthworks and MiningWatch Canada asserts that mine waste from Grasberg has “buried over 166 square kilometres of formerly productive forest and wetlands, and fish have largely disappeared”.
(20) The practice has devastated the environment, according to Earthworks and locals, turning thousands of hectares of verdant forest and mangroves into wasteland and rendering turgid the once-crystal waters of the highlands.
Rampart
Definition:
(n.) That which fortifies and defends from assault; that which secures safety; a defense or bulwark.
(n.) A broad embankment of earth round a place, upon which the parapet is raised. It forms the substratum of every permanent fortification.
(v. t.) To surround or protect with, or as with, a rampart or ramparts.
Example Sentences:
(1) We bartered for almonds and olives in the market, where there wasn't another tourist to be seen, and sat on the ramparts, watching the sun fall away beyond the horizon.
(2) The turbine housings, which are half-complete, resemble the jagged ramparts of a fort.
(3) How Google's antitrust headache began not from castle ramparts Read more An investigation by the Guardian into Google’s multifaceted lobbying campaign in Europe has uncovered fresh details of its activities and methods.
(4) The find is a few miles from Bredon hill, which has been a scene of human activity down the ages and still boasts the earthen ramparts of an iron age hill fort.
(5) Here, Main, Sidney Bracken, 65, Paul Radley, 52, and David Robinson, 63, are cooking an outdoor breakfast, after hanging a huge banner around the ramparts of the fort.
(6) There have been many initiatives, reports and government level strategies in recent years but few, perhaps none, have hammered at the ramparts of care for learning disabled adults with the force of BBC's Panorama expose Undercover Care: The Abuse Exposed .
(7) Analysis of the errors showed that one of the focal problems of the Gilbert-McKern system was the difficulty in judging whether the ventral rampart was building up or breaking down.
(8) They have gone, instead, for the candidate who seems best placed to appeal beyond the Republican ramparts, to swing voters and independents, just as they did in 2008 by choosing John McCain.
(9) The ridged area, where sweat ducts are distributed, is constructed of grooves and ramparts.
(10) O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming” – what does it mean?
(11) Things soon get serious with a tough climb onto Shoulsbarrow Common, beneath the ramparts of an iron-age hill fort.
(12) Voters, buffeted by unemployment, dismayed by immigration, scared of terrorism, and angry at growing inequality, crave the alleged certainties of a past where the strong nation state was a rampart for its citizens.
(13) Adults £85 per day, children (aged 13-17) £60 per day, overnight kayak camping expeditions an additional £15 per person per night Eilean Donan, Dornie Photograph: Alamy Clamber around the ramparts and explore the dimly lit nooks and crannies of one of the most romantic castles in Scotland.
(14) 2 Go through the gate on the right and follow the surfaced path through the ancient ramparts of the hill fort to the summit trig point.
(15) "They seek the secret of the Grail," gasps carbuncular nobleman Bertrand, as swarms of rhubarbing crusaders prepare to storm his ramparts.
(16) They have also used their nine-month siege of the north to dig in, creating elaborate defences, including tunnels and ramparts using construction equipment abandoned by fleeing construction crews.
(17) By the break of dawn the citadel's ramparts had been draped with banners proclaiming: "Peoples of Europe rise up."
(18) Offshore, a recognisably Viking kingdom boasts a fleet of longships; Westeros itself, like dark ages England, was once a heptarchy, a realm of seven kingdoms; the massive rampart of ice which guards its northernmost frontier is recognisably inspired by Hadrian's wall.
(19) But his passion for conservation isn’t confined to the 80 acres of streets and historic buildings within the fort’s Dutch-built ramparts.
(20) On this larger project, a stronger more robust New Orleans, the progress that you have made is remarkable.” Leo Watermeier, a longtime resident of North Rampart Street in the French Quarter and community activist, told the Guardian in an email that “I agree we’re moving forward.” “The influx of new people after Katrina has brought a new energy, that’s both pushing for needed changes and respectful of our traditions,” Watermeier said.