sea wall
a strong wall or embankment to prevent the encroachments of the sea, serve as a breakwater, etc.
Origin of sea wall
1Other words from sea wall
- sea-walled, adjective
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How to use sea wall in a sentence
From the sea walls of tide glaciers great fragments break off and float away as icebergs.
The Elements of Geology | William Harmon NortonThen is the sea loosed from its chains: the tumultuous breakers dash upon the affrighted shore: the sea-walls are all swept away!
Legends of the Bastille | Frantz Funck-BrentanoImmense dikes and sea-walls are erected to complete the security of the country from the invasions of the ocean.
Dikes and Ditches | Oliver OpticThis system may likewise be employed with advantage for the forming of stockades in rivers, or for building sea walls.
Little white villages surrounded by trees, nestle in the valleys or roost upon the lofty perpendicular sea-walls.
The Innocents Abroad | Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
British Dictionary definitions for sea wall
a wall or embankment built to prevent encroachment or erosion by the sea or to serve as a breakwater
Derived forms of sea wall
- sea-walled, adjective
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