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sea wall

noun

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

sea wall

a wall or embankment built to prevent encroachment or erosion by the sea or to serve as a breakwater

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

The children who choose to jump off Akka's sea wall seize the right to own their own fates.

Somebody who lives near the café then called him to say the water had risen over the sea wall.

And then she saw Florrie Bagster, on the other side of the street, walking leisurely by the sea-wall, alone.

On the near side, the sea-wall makes an elbow crooked inversely, and its end too has a lighthouse.

Elbows on the parapet of the sea-wall, they gaze out into the offing.

His house was upon a very high chalk rock, and a sea-wall of one-fifth the height would answer every purpose.

The estimate this gentleman made for the construction of a sea-wall—one that would stand—was ten thousand pounds.

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