sea wall

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noun
  1. a strong wall or embankment to prevent the encroachments of the sea, serve as a breakwater, etc.

Origin of sea wall

1
before 1000; Middle English; Old English: cliff over the sea

Other 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 Norton
  • Then 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-Brentano
  • Immense dikes and sea-walls are erected to complete the security of the country from the invasions of the ocean.

    Dikes and Ditches | Oliver Optic
  • This 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

sea wall

noun
  1. 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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