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Word entry · 4 letters

berm

Best crossword clue

"Road-edge bank"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /bɜː(ɹ)m/Part of speech nounSorted bemrStarts with BEnds with M2 cluesCommon crossword word
1B2E3R4M

Definitions

  1. a narrow edge of land (usually unpaved) along the side of a road

Word origin

From Dutch berm (“strip of roadside grass, verge”), probably via French berme, from Middle Dutch barm, baerm, barem (“verge, bank”), from Old Dutch *barm, from Proto-West Germanic *barm, from Proto-Germanic *barmaz (“edge, border, seam”).

Used in a sentence

  • On some beaches, the berm grows higher in summer and flattens out in the rougher winter seas.
  • A berm separates the Moroccan-controlled and Polisario-controlled parts of Western Sahara.
  • The sun soaked our street in hot yellow, and the berms were gasping for water.

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Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues

01Road-edge bank4 letters
02Roadside strip4 letters

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