seawall

seawall
Synonyms and related words:
abutment, anchorage, anchorage ground, arc-boutant, arch dam, backstop, bamboo curtain, bank, bar, barrage, barrier, basin, beam, bear-trap dam, beaver dam, berth, boom, breakwater, breastwork, brick wall, buffer, bulkhead, bulwark, buttress, buttress pier, buttressing, cofferdam, dam, defense, dike, ditch, dock, dockage, dockyard, dry dock, earthwork, embankment, fence, flying buttress, gate, gravity dam, groin, hanging buttress, harbor, harborage, haven, hydraulic-fill dam, iron curtain, jam, jetty, jutty, landing, landing place, landing stage, leaping weir, levee, logjam, marina, milldam, moat, mole, moorings, mound, parapet, pier, pier buttress, port, portcullis, protected anchorage, quay, rampart, retaining wall, road, roadblock, roads, roadstead, rock-fill dam, seaport, shipyard, shoulder, shutter dam, slip, stone wall, wall, weir, wharf, wicket dam, work

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  • Seawall — A seawall is a form of hard and strong coastal defence constructed on the inland part of a coast to reduce the effects of strong waves. In Britain, sea wall also refers to an earthen bank used to create a polder ndash; a dike. Seawalls may be… …   Wikipedia

  • Seawall Apartments — (Аделаида,Австралия) Категория отеля …   Каталог отелей

  • Seawall (Vancouver) — The seawall in Vancouver, Canada is a stone wall that was constructed around the perimeter of Stanley Park to prevent the erosion of the park s foreshore. Colloquially, the term also denotes the pedestrian, bicycle, and roller blading pathway on… …   Wikipedia

  • seawall — noun Date: 15th century a wall or embankment to protect the shore from erosion or to act as a breakwater …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • seawall — a structure built to prevent erosion by wave action …   Dictionary of ichthyology

  • seawall — sea·wall also sea wall (sēʹwôl ) n. An embankment to prevent erosion of a shoreline. * * * …   Universalium

  • seawall — noun a coastal defence in the form of an embankment …   Wiktionary

  • seawall — sea|wall [ˌsi:ˈwo:l US ˈsi:wo:l] n a wall built beside the sea to stop the water from flowing onto the land …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • seawall — noun (C) a wall built along the edge of the sea to stop the water from flowing over an area of land …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • seawall — /ˈsiwɔl/ (say seewawl) noun a strong wall or embankment to prevent the advance of the sea, act as a breakwater, etc …  

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