berm

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The fill for the berm was donated by a local contractor, and the mulch for the plants was donated by the city of Silvis, which also owns the land.

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  1. noun A narrow ledge or shelf, as along the top or bottom of a slope.
  2. noun Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, & West Virginia The shoulder of a road.
  3. noun A raised bank or path, especially the bank of a canal opposite the towpath.
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  • Beyond the berm was a forest of strange willowy trees. —  Asimov's SF, October-November2006
  • In the rearview mirror Gropp saw the green fog rolling up thicker onto the roadway; and emerging over the berm, in a jostling, slavering horde, clacking and drooling, dropping decayed body parts and leaving glistening trails of worm ooze as they dragged their deformed pulpy bodies across the blacktop, their snake-slit eyes gleaming green and yellow in the mist, the residents of Obedience dawed and slithered and crimped toward the car. —  F ;SF; - vol 087 issue 04-05 - October-November 1994
  • Inside the berm, a sheet of white plastic covered about six square meters of leveled earth. —  AHMM,November2007
  • She crossed the sandy berm, tempted to set the man down there. —  J
  • "They couldn't kill all of us before we got to the berm," he said. —  Map.html
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  1. French berme, from Dutch berm, from Middle Dutch bærm, berme.

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  1. Also written berme, rarely birm, barm; cf. French berme, = Russian berma, etc., from Middle Dutch berme, Dutch berm, berme, = Middle Low German berme, barm, = German berme, a berm, prob. = Icelandic barmr, edge, border, brim, as of a river or the sea, etc.: see brim.
 

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