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- noun Plural form of
earthwork .
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Examples
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The most accessible approach apparently to the rebel earthworks is over a clear field about 600 yards in width, and which, at first sight, presents the appearance of an almost perfect level.
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The NREGA is providing the opportunity to create short term earthworks and a minimum wage to tide over short term destitution.
IBN Top Headlines 2010
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The NREGA is providing the opportunity to create short term earthworks and a minimum wage to tide over short term destitution.
IBN Top Headlines 2010
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The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act is providing the opportunity to create short-term earthworks and a minimum wage to tide over short-term destitution.
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Many of these so-called earthworks are situated on the west bank of the Upper Missouri, in North Dakota and South Dakota.
First Across the Continent; The Story of The Exploring Expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6 1805
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Grant would fortify with the heaviest kind of earthworks, replace every man we killed by a foreigner and move around the end of our line with real American troops and fortify again.
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We need to give our drawing data to 3rd party clients so that they can do things such as earthworks, put architectural features on our site, use for rendering, etc.
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Proposals for the "earthworks" component demonstrate that the whole project of communicating with the future is really a creative assignment, more dependent on the imagination than on expertise.
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We need to give our drawing data to 3rd party clients so that they can do things such as earthworks, put architectural features on our site, use for rendering, etc.
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By the look of the earthworks and war wagons, they were only a month from bringing their siege to storm.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011
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