Wiktionary
roadcut
n. A cut through a hill or mountain for the purposes of building a road through it, rather than over it.
Usage examples of "roadcut".
In 1994, a research team led by Kirk Johnson, curator of paleontology at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, discovered the fossil remains of a 64-million-year-old forest in a roadcut near Denver, Colorado.
He stepped down into the roadcut and he looked at the gun and he looked at the boy.
A more sophisticated prospector will make an effort to deduce the subsurface structures by finding places where the underlying rock layers are exposed, such as outcrops, roadcuts, ditches, wells, and mines.