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  1. Earthwork
    [archaeology] In archaeology, earthwork is a general term to describe artificial changes in land level. Earthworks are often known colloquially as `lumps and bumps`. Earthworks can themselves be archaeological features or they can show features beneath the surface. ==Types of earthwork== Ear...
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  2. Earthwork
    An earthwork is a military fortification formed chiefly of earth. They were cheaper and easier to repair than stone defences and also carried less risk of injury to the defenders from broken stone.
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  3. earthwork
    [n] - an earthen rampart
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  4. Earthwork
    fortification made of earth mounds, banks and ditches
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  5. earthwork
    In archaeology, any artificial bank or mound of earth with or without a ditch. Examples include barrows or burial mounds,
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20688

  6. Earthwork
    An artwork which involves the manipulation of the natural environment and/or the use of natural materials, such as earth, stones, or wood, largely a phenomenon of the late 1960s and 1970s. Although...
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  7. Earthwork
    These are archaeological banks and ditches, bump and humps in the landscape as they survive. They might stand only a few centimetres above ground level, or be elaborate large-scale constructions, such as a motte and bailey castle.
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  8. Earthwork
    Earth'work` noun 1. (Mil.) Any construction, whether a temporary breastwork or permanent fortification, for attack or defense, the material of which is chiefly earth. 2. (Engineering) (a) The operation connected wit...
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  9. earthwork
    noun an earthen rampart
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  10. Earthwork
    • (n.) Any construction, whether a temporary breastwork or permanent fortification, for attack or defense, the material of which is chiefly earth. • (n.) An embankment or construction made of earth. • (n.) The operation connected with excavations and embankments of earth in preparing ...
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  11. Earthwork
    (art) An artwork which involves the manipulation of the natural environment and/or the use of natural materials, such as earth, stones, or wood, largely a phenomenon of the late 1960s and 1970s. Although some were exhibited in galleries, most earthworks were vast and usually constructed on......
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  12. earthwork
    1) Bulwark 2) Rampart 3) Wall
    Found op http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/EN/crossword-dictionary/earthwork/1

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