floodwall
English
Alternative forms
- flood wall
Etymology
flood + wall
Noun
floodwall (plural floodwalls)
- A man-made vertical barrier designed to temporarily contain the waters of a river or other waterway during a flood
- 2007 May 29, John Schwartz, “Can Science Outwit Storms Like Katrina?”, in New York Times:
- The New Orleans levees and floodwalls were built to withstand a hypothetical storm […] .
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Translations
barrier
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