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earthwork definition

earth·work (-wʉrk′)

noun

  1. an embankment made by piling up earth, esp. as a fortification
  2. Engineering the work of excavating or building embankments
  3. a work of art, usually massive in scale, incorporating a natural feature of an area, as a groove sculpted into a desert mesa or a wheat field planted in geometric patterns

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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