How to pronounce berm

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What berm means

noun

A long, raised bank of earth beside a road or ditch

In a sentence: The workers piled dirt into a berm to keep rainwater off the bike path.

Where it comes from: It probably came through French from an old Dutch word for the edge of a bank. That goes back to a very old word meaning an edge or border.

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