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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A narrow ledge or shelf, as along the top or bottom of a slope.
  2. n. Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, & West Virginia The shoulder of a road.
  3. n. A raised bank or path, especially the bank of a canal opposite the towpath.
  4. n. A nearly horizontal or landward-sloping portion of a beach, formed by the deposition of sediment by storm waves.
  5. n. A mound or bank of earth, used especially as a barrier or to provide insulation.
  6. n. The flat space between the edge of a ditch and the base of a fortification.
  7. v. To provide with a berm or berms.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A narrow ledge; specifically, in fortification, a space of ground or a terrace from 3 to 5 feet in width, left between the rampart and the moat or foss, designed to receive the ruins of the rampart in the event of a bombardment, and to prevent the earth from filling the foss. Sometimes it is palisaded, and in the Netherlands it is generally planted with a quickset hedge.
  2. n. The bank or side of a canal which is opposite to the towing-path. Also called berm-bank.
  3. n. In railroad engin., the narrow horizontal plane between the foot of the embankment or excavation slope and the top of the slope of the side-ditch.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A narrow ledge or shelf, as along the top or bottom of a slope
  2. n. A raised bank or path, especially the bank of a canal opposite the towpath
  3. n. A terrace formed by wave action along a beach
  4. n. A mound or bank of earth, used especially as a barrier or to provide insulation
  5. n. A ledge between the parapet and the moat in a fortification
  6. n. A strip of land between a street and sidewalk (regional)
  7. v. To provide something with a berm

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Fort.) A narrow shelf or path between the bottom of a parapet and the ditch.
  2. n. (Engineering) A ledge at the bottom of a bank or cutting, to catch earth that may roll down the slope, or to strengthen the bank.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a narrow ledge or shelf typically at the top or bottom of a slope
  2. n. a narrow edge of land (usually unpaved) along the side of a road

Etymologies

  1. From Dutch berm, cognate of English brim. (Wiktionary)
  2. French berme, from Dutch berm, from Middle Dutch bærm, berme. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (3)

Words with the same meaning

  1. ledge
  1. edge
  1. tree lawn

equivalents (1)

Other words for ‘berm’

  1. berme

hypernyms (2)

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  1. shelf
  1. ledge

same context (10)

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  1. embankment
  2. towpath
  1. intrench
  2. dozer
  1. wind-break
  2. airstrip
  1. swale
  2. levee
  1. breakwater
  2. half-glass

rhymes (18)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Germ
  2. Herm
  3. affirm
  1. confirm
  2. ferm
  3. firm
  1. germ
  2. herm
  3. infirm
  1. long-term
  2. reaffirm
  3. reconfirm
  1. sperm
  2. squirm
  3. term
  1. therm
  2. thurm
  3. worm

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. berm
  1. barm
  1. berme
  1. heelpath
  1. foreshore

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  1. berm-bank

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Words tagged ‘berm’

  1. aqua berm

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  • fbharjo
    is it a hare-a-do about munching? Sep 28, 2011

  • frogapplause Berm, Baby! Berm! Aug 4, 2011

  • ruzuzu I was hearing a lot about an aqua berm north of Omaha recently. Aug 4, 2011

  • frogapplause Members of the Missouri National Guard brought in trucks with sand and heavy equipment to help with the recovery effort. They built a berm to redirect the current of floodwater so it would make the search effort easier. Aug 4, 2011

  • yarb Makes me want to read it again.. Feb 25, 2009

  • myth I stick my plate under Mom's nose, but she waves it off. I sit in Pop's old rocker, watch the storm come. Dust devils puff around on the berm, and maple sprigs land in the yard with their white bellies up.
    Across the road, our windbreak bends, rows of cedars furling every which way at once. - Pcake Feb 25, 2009

  • yarb I read Pancake recently, but I didn't notice his superlative berm usage. May 10, 2008

  • reesetee Wow. I started to wonder whether anyone else knew of Pancake. :-) Nov 2, 2007

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