berm.
A narrow ledge or shelf, as along the top or bottom of a slope.
Meaning & usage
A narrow ledge or shelf, as along the top or bottom of a slope.
A raised bank or path, especially the bank of a canal opposite the towpath.
One of the flat terraces on the slope of an open-pit mine.
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.
A small wall along the edge of a bench of an open-pit mine, intended to prevent items falling over the crest.
A ledge between the parapet and the moat in a fortification.
A strip of land between a street and sidewalk.
The edge of a road.
Where this word comes from
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”).
To provide something with a berm
Where this word comes from
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”).
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