Crossword-Solution: EARTHWORK
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Earthwork | n. | Any construction, whether a temporary breastwork or permanent fortification, for attack or defense, the material of which is chiefly earth. |
| Earthwork | n. | The operation connected with excavations and embankments of earth in preparing foundations of buildings, in constructing canals, railroads, etc. |
| Earthwork | n. | An embankment or construction made of earth. |
We have 15 clues for the answer “EARTHWORK”
| Clue | Answers |
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| redan | 3 answers |
| shelter trench | 4 answers |
| DEFENSIVE work | 9 answers |
| entrenchment | 9 answers |
| Parapet | 15 answers |
| defences | 19 answers |
| Embankment | 24 answers |
| Trench | 25 answers |
| bulwark | 28 answers |
| grading | 32 answers |
| Wall | 48 answers |
| Fortification | 56 answers |
| Mound | 56 answers |
| BANK ___ | 67 answers |
| Groundwork | 75 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATERE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with EARTHWORK (5)
This yearly gathering was upon the summit of a hill which retained in good preservation the remains of an ancient earthwork, consisting of a huge rampart and entrenchment of an oval form encircling the top of the hill, though somewhat broken down here and there.
Divine, feeling that immediate danger from bullets was past, raised his head above the edge of the earthwork.
But the most one sees of the burrowers, gophers, and mice is the fresh earthwork of their newly opened doors, or the pitiful small shreds the butcher-bird hangs on spiny shrubs.
These four dams were built of big stones, earthwork, and lumber, faced with smooth planks, over which a small quantity of water usually drizzled into the shallow river-bed.
The surrounding earthwork had been destroyed in many places, and there were the breaches through which the marauders who followed the armies of Feofar-Khan had penetrated.
Quotes with EARTHWORK (2)
Our children form a large part of our Immortality Project. This is one of the reasons a child’s death cuts so deep; some of the future dies with them. Through them and their descendants, part of us lives on forever, just as it does in the friends we touch and the ripples our actions cause in the world. All these effects are conscripts, earthwork defences against the finality of extinction.
The womb of the world births us. My filth comes from the same earthwork that gives rise to all stories. My interior light connects me with all the other creatures that inhabit this world of rocks, air, grass, woods, and water. My genetic code links me inextricably with all of nature. I enter the medley in the river of life with the ability to respond as life unfolds before my childlike eyes. My homemade medicinal poultice might not be of any benefit to other people. Nonethele…