All earthwork synonyms

noun earthwork

• barricade — A barricade is a line of vehicles or other objects placed across a road or open space to stop people getting past, for example during street fighting or as a protest.
• reinforcement — the act of reinforcing.
• fortress — a large fortified place; a fort or group of forts, often including a town; citadel.
• citadel — In the past, a citadel was a strong building in or near a city, where people could shelter for safety.
• dam — A dam is a wall that is built across a river in order to stop the water flowing and to make a lake.
• gully — a small valley or ravine originally worn away by running water and serving as a drainageway after prolonged heavy rains.
• dike — a contemptuous term used to refer to a lesbian.
• trough — a long, narrow, open receptacle, usually boxlike in shape, used chiefly to hold water or food for animals.
• gorge — to swallow, especially greedily.
• moat — a deep, wide trench, usually filled with water, surrounding the rampart of a fortified place, as a town or a castle.
• pit — the stone of a fruit, as of a cherry, peach, or plum.
• foxhole — a small pit, usually for one or two soldiers, dug as a shelter in a battle area.
• waterway — a river, canal, or other body of water serving as a route or way of travel or transport.
• wall — any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.
• defense — the act or power of defending, or guarding against attack, harm, or danger
• fastness — a secure or fortified place; stronghold: a mountain fastness.
• support — to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
• bastion — If a system or organization is described as a bastion of a particular way of life, it is seen as being important and effective in defending that way of life. Bastion can be used both when you think that this way of life should be ended and when you think it should be defended.
• battlement — a parapet or wall with indentations or embrasures, originally for shooting through
• barrier — A barrier is something such as a rule, law, or policy that makes it difficult or impossible for something to happen or be achieved.
• buffer — A buffer is something that prevents something else from being harmed or that prevents two things from harming each other.
• consolidation — the act of consolidating or state of being consolidated
• protection — the act of protecting or the state of being protected; preservation from injury or harm.
• outpost — a station established at a distance from the main body of an army to protect it from surprise attack: We keep only a small garrison of men at our desert outposts.
• fort — a strong or fortified place occupied by troops and usually surrounded by walls, ditches, and other defensive works; a fortress; fortification.
• stronghold — a well-fortified place; fortress.
• parapet — Fortification. a defensive wall or elevation, as of earth or stone, in a fortification. an elevation raised above the main wall or rampart of a permanent fortification.
• bulwark — A bulwark against something protects you against it. A bulwark of something protects it.
• keep — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
• preparation — a proceeding, measure, or provision by which one prepares for something: preparations for a journey.
• stockade — Fortification. a defensive barrier consisting of strong posts or timbers fixed upright in the ground.
• castle — A castle is a large building with thick, high walls. Castles were built by important people, such as kings, in former times, especially for protection during wars and battles.
• garrison — William Lloyd, 1805–79, U.S. leader in the abolition movement.
• block — A block of flats or offices is a large building containing them.
• strengthening — to make stronger; give strength to.
• blockhouse — (formerly) a wooden fortification with ports or loopholes for defensive fire, observation, etc
• presidio — a garrisoned fort; military post.
• breastwork — a temporary defensive work, usually breast-high
• breakwater — A breakwater is a wooden or stone wall that extends from the shore into the sea and is built in order to protect a harbour or beach from the force of the waves.
• mound — a globe topped with a cross that symbolizes power and constitutes part of the regalia of an English sovereign.
• bank — A bank is a building where a bank offers its services.
• ridge — a long, narrow elevation of land; a chain of hills or mountains.
• fence — a barrier enclosing or bordering a field, yard, etc., usually made of posts and wire or wood, used to prevent entrance, to confine, or to mark a boundary.
• guard — to keep safe from harm or danger; protect; watch over: to guard the ruler.
• hill — the small hill in Washington, D.C., on which the Capitol stands.
• security — freedom from danger, risk, etc.; safety.
• rut — the periodically recurring sexual excitement of the deer, goat, sheep, etc.
• canal — A canal is a long, narrow stretch of water that has been made for boats to travel along or to bring water to a particular area.
• cut — If you cut something, you use a knife or a similar tool to divide it into pieces, or to mark it or damage it. If you cut a shape or a hole in something, you make the shape or hole by using a knife or similar tool.
• tube — a hollow, usually cylindrical body of metal, glass, rubber, or other material, used especially for conveying or containing liquids or gases.