earthwork

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A henge is an earthwork with a ditch inside a banked earth wall.

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Any structure made from earth, especially an embankment used for fortification or flood control.

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noun

Any structure made from earth, especially an embankment used for fortification or flood control.

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noun

Any structure made from earth, especially an embankment used for fortification or flood control.

Example sentences

A henge is an earthwork with a ditch inside a banked earth wall.

I was thinking about the automation when doing earthwork when I was in the field 20+ years ago.

The culture of the writing era exemplified cut earthwork and decorative marks.

There might or might not be stones inside the the earthwork.

As in, Offa's Dyke, a large earthwork in the UK.

Cannons made forts rely primarily on angled, earthwork curtains.

LLMs ain't gonna be performing electrical, plumbing, earthwork, welding, or carpentry anytime soon.

Not only is it much more expensive, because you pay for the earthwork and additional insulator, but it also limits your voltage (to avoid overpaying for insulation even more).

> A henge can be one of three related types of Neolithic earthwork.

Actual development involves a lot of heavy earthwork, drainage plans, development of water and sewer networks, maybe road planning, fire hydrants, etc etc.

Ultimately the only durable thing is any power infra that gets built, vs rail and fiber where inheritance isn't just rail networks or fiber but like 1000s of kilometers of earthwork projects to build out massive physical networks.