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sea·wall

also sea wall  (sē′wôl′)
n.
An embankment to prevent erosion of a shoreline.
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sea wall

n
1. a wall or embankment built to prevent encroachment or erosion by the sea or to serve as a breakwater
ˈsea-ˌwalled adj
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sea′ wall`


n.
a strong wall or embankment to prevent the encroachments of the sea.
[before 1000]
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Translations

sea wall

ndiga marittima
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
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Widodo told The Associated Press on Friday that it's time to move ahead with the sea wall, a project the government first began to consider a decade ago.
The sea wall here is completely broken and the beach has been eroded in this southwest monsoon, which began in June.
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By MOHAMED AHMEDMombasa Governor Hassan Joho stormed the construction site of a sea wall to protect the erosion of Fort Jesus and ordered it stopped.Mr Joho, who was accompanied by National Land Commission chairman Muhammad Swazuri, ordered the National Museums of Kenya, which is in charge of the project, to halt the process, saying it was going against the application it had made.
A large band of cockroaches were oddly seen along a Macau sea wall when typhoon Hato hit the area.
The volunteer found the boy had fallen onto a sea wall on the south side of the bay and, after giving him first aid, asked members of the public to call for assistance.
Many people gathered along the sea wall watching the two boats' efforts to rescue the hovercraft, which drifted on to rocks after the rope from a life buoy became entangled in its propeller.
A Bobcat T40180 has been enlisted to support repairs at Jersey's sea wall.
The reclamation project will create an underwater sea wall, which will be formed using custom-designed sand filled geo textile tubes, eco-engineered to replicate natural environments for local marine life to inhabit.
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