Lexicographical Neighbors of Berme
Literary usage of Berme
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Report by New York (State) (1873)
"About fifty lineal feet of vertical wall has been built on berme side ...
Vertical wall should take the place of the docking on berme side through West Troy ..."
2. Problems of the Panama Canal: Including Climatology of the Isthmus, Physics by Henry L. Abbot (1907)
"In soft earth or sand they are taken 1 on 3 below water and I on 2 above water;
in firm earth, 2 on 3 below a berme 10 feet wide 6 feet under water, ..."
3. Statutes at Large of the State of New York: Comprising the Revised Statutes by New York (State)., John Worth Edmonds (1875)
"For reconstructing protection railing of iron on berme pro- protection tection
wall along South St. Paul street, in the city of Roch- Rochester, ester, ..."
4. Problems of the Panama Canal: Including Climatology of the Isthmus, Physics by Henry Larcom Abbot (1907)
"In soft earth or sand they are taken I on 3 below water and 1 on 2 above water;
in firm earth, 2 on 3 below a berme 10 feet wide 6 feet under water, ..."
5. Acts of the State of Ohio by Ohio, Ohio General Assembly, Ohio Secretary of State (1894)
"(2) Beginning again at a point 7450 feet from the crossing of the locks of the
Walhonding canal at Roscoe, and extending along the berme bank of the ..."
6. The Elements of Railroad Engineering by William Galt Raymond (1913)
"If the berme be ... a height of 20 feet, and a berme distance of 6 feet to a
surface ditch 5 feet wide on the upper.side of the cut, requires more than 50 ..."
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