berm

About 0.21 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A narrow ledge or shelf, as along the top or bottom of a slope. (Can we verify this sense?)
2. noun A raised bank or path, especially the bank of a canal opposite the towpath.
3. noun One of the flat terraces on the slope of an open-pit mine.
4. noun A terrace or shelf of sand along a beach, formed above the high tide water level by wave action.

   On some beaches, the berm grows higher in summer and flattens out in the rougher winter seas.

5. noun A long mound or bank of earth, used especially as a barrier or to provide insulation.

   A berm separates the Moroccan-controlled and Polisario-controlled parts of Western Sahara.

6. noun A small wall along the edge of a bench of an open-pit mine, intended to prevent items falling over the crest.
7. noun A ledge between the parapet and the moat in a fortification.
8. noun A strip of land between a street and sidewalk.

Similar words

embankment wall ledge sand slope swell talus verge rascal sable

Often followed by

and of is to was at or on that

Word family

berms