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earthwork
noun
earth·work ˈərth-ˌwərk 
1
: an embankment or other construction made of earth
especially : one used as a field fortification
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web Construction of a 40,000 square foot facility at Ingersoll Machine Tools in Rockford, Illinois to build the telescope structure is complete, as is the earthwork in Chile for the pouring of the telescope’s foundation. 
Jim Vinoski, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022 Currently, the earthwork is nearly gone and sits beneath a cemetery, per the Washington Post. Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2022 The remaining images and evidence of the earthwork were illustrated in 1823 by United States Army Corps of Engineers and were drawn in a book called Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley published by the Smithsonian Institution in 1848. Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2022 Weiss/Manfredi’s earthwork at the edge of Brooklyn represent mourning as a constriction, a movement from light to darkness and back again. Justin Davidson, Curbed, 15 Mar. 2021 Snipers, missileers and artillerymen on both sides wait for, and take potshots at, the enemy on the opposite earthwork. David Axe, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2021 The figure was long presumed to be ancient, but until recent decades no technologies existed for dating such an earthwork. Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 12 May 2021 Yet Dia remains very much the keeper of the Minimal-Conceptual-earthwork flame. Roberta Smith, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2021 Harvey Fite’s large-scale, walkable earthwork sculpture handcrafted with local bluestone is imbued with a mythic sensibility that will inspire awe in visitors of all ages. Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2021 See More
Jim Vinoski, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022 Currently, the earthwork is nearly gone and sits beneath a cemetery, per the Washington Post. Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2022 The remaining images and evidence of the earthwork were illustrated in 1823 by United States Army Corps of Engineers and were drawn in a book called Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley published by the Smithsonian Institution in 1848. Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2022 Weiss/Manfredi’s earthwork at the edge of Brooklyn represent mourning as a constriction, a movement from light to darkness and back again. Justin Davidson, Curbed, 15 Mar. 2021 Snipers, missileers and artillerymen on both sides wait for, and take potshots at, the enemy on the opposite earthwork. David Axe, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2021 The figure was long presumed to be ancient, but until recent decades no technologies existed for dating such an earthwork. Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 12 May 2021 Yet Dia remains very much the keeper of the Minimal-Conceptual-earthwork flame. Roberta Smith, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2021 Harvey Fite’s large-scale, walkable earthwork sculpture handcrafted with local bluestone is imbued with a mythic sensibility that will inspire awe in visitors of all ages. Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2021 See More Word History
First Known Use
1633, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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