sea wall

American  

noun

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

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sea wall British  

noun

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

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Other Word Forms

• sea-walled adjective

Etymology

Origin of sea wall

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

Example Sentences

Using the alias Sienna, the three teenagers had messaged Cashford and arranged to meet him by the sea wall.

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The storms that tore through Dawlish in 2014 prompted a five-phase project to build a new sea wall in the town, and a large rock shelter just down the line.

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For its part, Network Rail says the new sea wall in the town faced its "biggest test" yet during Storm Ingrid and "performed as designed by deflecting waves back to into the sea", which meant the line was reopened quickly.

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The disastrous two-month closure in 2014 was caused not by a breach of the sea wall in Dawlish, but by a serious landslip down the line near the neighbouring coastal town of Teignmouth.

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You might remember in February 2014 that the track was left dangling precariously high in the air as storms washed away the protecting sea wall.

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