flood wall
noun
Civil Engineering. a wall built along a shore or bank to prevent floods by giving a raised, uniform freeboard and by allowing unimpeded flow to water in a channel.
Origin of flood wall
1First recorded in 1950–55
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How to use flood wall in a sentence
The smaller “flood wall Street” eschewed the big-tent approach and focused on radical politics and aggressive activism.
Occupy Climate Change! Hundreds Blame Capitalism at Flood Wall Street Rally | Jacob Siegel | September 22, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe same sensational rumors of a great rise to come flood wall and State streets as in 1901.
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