Definitions for berms

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Spelling: [burm]

IPA: /bɜrm/

Berms is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 63 anagrams from letters in berms (bemrs).

Definitions for berms

noun

1. Also, berme. Fortification. a horizontal surface between the exterior slope of a rampart and the moat.
2. Also called bench. any level strip of ground at the summit or sides, or along the base, of a slope.
3. Also called backshore, beach berm. a nearly flat back portion of a beach, formed of material deposited by the action of the waves.
4. Chiefly Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. the bank of a canal or the shoulder of a road.
5. Chiefly Alaska. a mound of snow or dirt, as formed when clearing land.
6. a bank of earth placed against an exterior wall or walls of a house or other building as protection against extremes of temperature.

verb (used with object)

1. to cover or protect with a berm:

Origin of berms

1720-30; French berme Dutch berm; akin to brim¹

Examples for berms

A pioneer swam across, hauled over a cable, and made it fast to the hedge on the berm.

berm (probably a variant of “brim”), a narrow ledge of ground, generally the level banks of a river.

In parts of Egypt the whole area reached by the Nile is included in the berm.

The minimum breadth of the berm was laid down as three feet.

"And you're directly responsible to the company for that berm construction," broke in Burford hotly.

In fortification, a word sometimes used for berm (which see).

As I reach the berm of sand, tile and stucco that marked a kind of front line, bodies are being piled on carts in the street.

With the help of the ladder they ascended the berm and measured the height of the wall.