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seawall
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a protective structure of stone or concrete; extends from shore into the water to prevent a beach from washing away [syn: breakwater , groin , groyne , mole , bulwark , jetty ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ The fires combined into a raging firestorm, driving the survivors toward the seawall , where they were struck by the waves.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The seawall in Vancouver , British Columbia , 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 rollerblading ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. a coastal defence in the form of an embankment
Usage examples of seawall.
Two-point-five klicks west of the seawall, a band of botflies and exoskels formed a north-south line and began sealing off skyways and tunnels.
Presently, they came upon the banks of a broad canal and I took up a new heading atop a moss-covered seawall whose age-blackened stones looked easily twice the size of the mobile fieldpiece in which they rode.
Parcade lay perpendicular to the beach, had once connected almost directly with the beach itself, but the stairs that breached the seawall had been barricaded, riprap piled behind the new concrete walls, and only the occasional plume of sand now passed that barrier.
Less than a kay ahead is the first section of the stone riprap of the seawall, and there two redstone pillars flank the road.
Army Corps of Engineers give a presentation at the town library, explaining their plan to stabilize the cliff at its most vulnerable points with impromptu riprap seawalls made of boulders dumped from above.
The few passersby on the still night stared incuriously as Albury drove along the seawall until the Winnebago was about seventy-five feet from the end.
Beyond the seawall, the ruin of the Pavilion Bandstand loomed, jutting on a broken pier a hundred meters out into the water.
Behind him, Lorn can hear the rumbling and whining of a small firewagon as it tows the cannonlike those once used against the Accursed Forestalong the seawall road.
As he considers her words, the two walk slowly northward on the walkway flanking the seawall, back toward the Trading Plaza for the Clanless Houses.
All the living Cinnabars were on the vessel or hidden beneath the lip of the seawall.
Quinlan studied engineering, and worked long years on the frustrating and ultimately pointless seawalls and hydromechanical barriers that failed to prevent the rising ocean from flooding out most of Florida and the Gulf Coast regions as far south as Mexico's Yucatan peninsula.
He held center stage, right at the seawall itself, performing unlilsely feats of juggling, general legerdemain, and Robin Williams-like improvisational comedy—.
He held center stage, right at the seawall itself, performing unlilsely feats of juggling, general legerdemain, and Robin Williams-like improvisational comedy-on a tightrope, balanced high above water that had not yet made up its mind whether it was Atlantic Ocean or Gulf of Mexico.
He sees the firelance and jumps off the side of the seawall into waist-deep water.
They flanked a small motor home with blacked-out windows that served as a security van for the Jameel's four exterior guards, who patrolled the quay and the walkway atop the seawall in the immediate area of the yacht.