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What (who) is BERM - definition
RAISED BANK OF LAND OR BARRIER
Berms; Burm; Berme
berm
[b?:m]
¦ noun a raised bank or flat strip of land bordering a river, canal, or road.
?an artificial ridge or embankment.
?a narrow ledge, especially one between a ditch and the base of a parapet.
Origin
C18 (denoting a narrow space): from Fr. berme.
Berm
·noun ·Alt. of Berme.
Berm
A berm is a level space, shelf, or raised barrier (usually made of compacted soil) separating areas in a vertical way, especially partway up a long slope. It can serve as a terrace road, track, path, a fortification line, a border/separation barrier for navigation, good drainage, industry, or other purposes.
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Berm
A berm is a level space, shelf, or raised barrier (usually made of compacted soil) separating areas in a vertical way, especially partway up a long slope. It can serve as a terrace road, track, path, a fortification line, a border/separation barrier for navigation, good drainage, industry, or other purposes.
Examples of use of BERM
1. A berm, four sandbags high, surrounds Eric Penn‘s house.
2. Nein rolled over the berm into the trench, Hester following behind.
3. In another, the same officer leaps from a berm and tries to bayonet a subdued prisoner.
4. In the Carabell case, the proposed development site was behind a berm.
5. They have done some improvement on the physical berm that exists between the two countries.