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See also: Berm.
English
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Berm_vesting.svg/220px-Berm_vesting.svg.png)
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Etymology
[edit]From Dutch berm (“strip of roadside grass, verge”), probably via French berme, from Middle Dutch barm, baerm, barem (“verge, bank”), from Old Dutch *barm, from Proto-West Germanic *barm, from Proto-Germanic *barmaz (“edge, border, seam”). Related to English brim.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /bɜː(ɹ)m/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)m
Noun
[edit]berm (plural berms)
- A narrow ledge or shelf, as along the top or bottom of a slope. (Can we verify(+) this sense?)
- A raised bank or path, especially the bank of a canal opposite the towpath.
- Synonym: (canal path) heelpath
- 1910 February 23, U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Agriculture, Protection of Watersheds of Navigable Streams, page 139:
- The big canals in Europe, in Holland, have a great big berm on the side of the canal several feet wide, which they leave there on purpose to plant reeds in, so as to get a reedy vegetation to protect their slope. Then, beyond that, there is an earthen slope that is grassed and sodded.
- (mining, Australia) One of the flat terraces on the slope of an open-pit mine.
- Synonyms: (US) bench, (US) bench floor
- Coordinate terms: (Australia) batter, (US) bench face
- 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.
- 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.
- (mining, US, Canada) A small wall along the edge of a bench of an open-pit mine, intended to prevent items falling over the crest.
- Synonym: (Australia) windrow
- A ledge between the parapet and the moat in a fortification.
- (Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Zealand) A strip of land between a street and sidewalk.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:verge
- 2003, Emma Espiner, There’s a Cure for This: A Memoir, Penguin, page 15:
- The sun soaked our street in hot yellow, and the berms were gasping for water.
- (Western Pennsylvania) The edge of a road.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]narrow ledge along the top or bottom of a slope
raised bank or path along canal
terrace formed by wave action
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mound or bank of earth used as a barrier or to provide insulation
ledge between the parapet and the moat
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strip of land between a street and sidewalk
Verb
[edit]berm (third-person singular simple present berms, present participle berming, simple past and past participle bermed)
- To provide something with a berm
Anagrams
[edit]Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Dutch baerm, from Old Dutch *barm, from Proto-Germanic *barmaz.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]berm m (plural bermen, diminutive bermpje n)
Derived terms
[edit]Middle English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Old English beorma.
Noun
[edit]berm
- Alternative form of berme
Etymology 2
[edit]From Old English bearm.
Noun
[edit]berm
- Alternative form of barm
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