Berm

Quick meaning: Berm is a noun meaning A narrow ledge or shelf, as along the top or bottom of a slope.

Meaning

A narrow ledge or shelf, as along the top or bottom of a slope.

More Meanings

1. A raised bank or path, especially the bank of a canal opposite the towpath.
2. (mining, Australia) One of the flat terraces on the slope of an open-pit mine.
3. A terrace or shelf of sand along a beach, formed above the high tide water level by wave action.
4. A long mound or bank of earth, used especially as a barrier or to provide insulation.
5. (mining, US, Canada) A small wall along the edge of a bench of an open-pit mine, intended to prevent items falling over the crest.
6. A ledge between the parapet and the moat in a fortification.
7. (Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Zealand) A strip of land between a street and sidewalk.

Example Sentences

The sun soaked our street in hot yellow, and the berms were gasping for water.

A berm separates the Moroccan-controlled and Polisario-controlled parts of Western Sahara.

On some beaches, the berm grows higher in summer and flattens out in the rougher winter seas.

The big canals in Europe, in Holland, have a great big berm on the side of the canal several feet wide, which they leave there on purpose to plant reeds in, so as to get a reedy vegetation to protect their slope. Then, beyond that, there is an earthen slope that is grassed and sodded.

Word Forms

• berms
• berming
• bermed

Synonyms for berm

Depending on context, synonyms include heelpath, bench, windrow, boulevard, common, easement.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include embankment, wall, ledge, sand, slope, swell.

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