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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Earthwork \Earth"work`\, n.
     1. (Mil.) Any construction, whether a temporary breastwork or
        permanent fortification, for attack or defense, the
        material of which is chiefly earth.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. (Engin.)
        (a) The operation connected with excavations and
            embankments of earth in preparing foundations of
            buildings, in constructing canals, railroads, etc.
        (b) An embankment or construction made of earth.
            [1913 Webster]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]


  Earthwork \Earth"work`\, n.
     1. (Mil.) Any construction, whether a temporary breastwork or
        permanent fortification, for attack or defense, the
        material of which is chiefly earth.
  
     2. (Engin.)
        (a) The operation connected with excavations and
            embankments of earth in preparing foundations of
            buildings, in constructing canals, railroads, etc.
        (b) An embankment or construction made of earth.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 : [ wn ]


  earthwork
       n : an earthen rampart

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  earthwork
     n.
     Any structure made from earth; especially an embankment or rampart
  used as a fortification.

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]


  earthwork
     n.
     Any structure made from earth; especially an embankment or rampart
  used as a fortification.

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]


  earthwork
     n.
     Any structure made from earth; especially an embankment or rampart
  used as a fortification.

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]


  earthwork
     n.
     Any structure made from earth; especially an embankment or rampart
  used as a fortification.

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 : [ freedict:eng-ara ]


  Earthwork /ˈɜːθwɜːk/
  المانع الأرضي

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]


  earthwork /ˈɜːθwɜːk/ 
  násep

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]


  earthwork /ˈɜːθwɜːk/
  Erdarbeiten  [constr.]
     Synonyms: earth works, earth-moving

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]


  earthwork /ˈɜːθwɜːk/
  Erdbau , Erdarbeiten , Grabarbeiten  [constr.]
     Synonym: groundwork
  
   see: trench work

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]


  earthwork /ˈɜːθwɜːk/
  Erdwall , Erdaufwurf , Erddamm um ein Öltanklager
     Synonym: barricade around an oil depot
  
   see: earthworks

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]


  earthwork /ˈɜːθwɜːk/
  Erdwerk 
           Note: Archäologie
           Note: archaeology

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]


  earthwork /ˈɜːθwɜːk/
  Schanze  [mil.]

From English-suomi FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:eng-fin ]


  earthwork //ˈɜːθwɜːk// //ˈɝθwɝk// 
  maavalli
  structure made from earth

From English-Hindi FreeDict Dictionary ver. 1.6 : [ freedict:eng-hin ]


  earthwork /ˈɜːθwɜːk/ 
  1. सुरक्षा~के~लिए~पृथ्वी~का~कृत्रिम~किनारा
        "The remains of the ancient earthworks were found near the archeological sight."

From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 : [ freedict:eng-hun ]


  earthwork /ˈɜːθwɜːk/
  földmunka

From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 : [ freedict:eng-tur ]


  earthwork /ˈɜːθwɜːk/
  1. (ask.) toprak tabyası, topraktan yapılan set, siper.

From IPA:en_US : [ IPA:en_US ]

/ˈɝθˌwɝk/

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 : [ moby-thesaurus ]


  94 Moby Thesaurus words for "earthwork":
     abatis, advanced work, arch dam, backstop, balistraria,
     bamboo curtain, bank, banquette, bar, barbed-wire entanglement,
     barbican, barrage, barricade, barrier, bartizan, bastion,
     battlement, bear-trap dam, beaver dam, boom, breakwater,
     breastwork, brick wall, buffer, bulkhead, bulwark, casemate,
     cheval-de-frise, circumvallation, cofferdam, contravallation,
     counterscarp, curtain, dam, defense, demibastion, dike, ditch,
     drawbridge, embankment, enclosure, entanglement, escarp,
     escarpment, fence, fieldwork, fortalice, fortification, gate,
     glacis, gravity dam, groin, hydraulic-fill dam, iron curtain, jam,
     jetty, leaping weir, levee, logjam, loophole, lunette,
     machicolation, mantelet, merlon, milldam, moat, mole, mound,
     outwork, palisade, parados, parapet, portcullis, postern gate,
     rampart, ravelin, redan, redoubt, roadblock, rock-fill dam,
     sally port, scarp, sconce, seawall, shutter dam, stockade,
     stone wall, tenaille, vallation, vallum, wall, weir, wicket dam,
     work

From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary : [ stardic ]


  n. 泥瓦匠

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary : [ xdict ]


     n. 土木工程

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