EARTHWORK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does earthwork mean? 

• EARTHWORK (noun)
  The noun EARTHWORK has 1 sense:

1. an earthen rampart

  Familiarity information: EARTHWORK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EARTHWORK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An earthen rampart

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("earthwork" is a kind of...):

bulwark; rampart; wall (an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "earthwork"):

sconce (a small fort or earthwork defending a ford, pass, or castle gate)

 Context examples 

In every direction upon these moors there were traces of some vanished race which had passed utterly away, and left as its sole record strange monuments of stone, irregular mounds which contained the burned ashes of the dead, and curious earthworks which hinted at prehistoric strife.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)