Lexicographical Neighbors of Bermes
Literary usage of Bermes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report by Elmer Lawrence Corthell, United States Dept. of State (1900)
"Again, he compares the effect of waves upon bermes that are consolidated and upon
... below 1 meter (3.28 feet) and 46 per cent of bermes not consolidated, ..."
2. The Map of Europe by Treaty: Showing the Various Political and Territorial by Sir Edward Hertslet (1875)
"With regard to the dykes, dyke-bermes, " groden," and flats situated in the Ceded
Territory, Oldenburg transfers to Prussia, besides the full Sovereignty, ..."
3. Problems of the Panama Canal: Including Climatology of the Isthmus, Physics by Henry L. Abbot (1907)
"... intervals of about 8 metres (26 feet) these slopes are cut by horizontal bermes
from 5 metres to 3 metres in width (16 to IO feet), to favor drainage. ..."
4. Manual by American Railway Engineering Association (1916)
"Slopes and bermes. 44. Side slopes of borrow pits on the right-of-way shall be
the same as used in ... bermes shall consist of the original unbroken ground. ..."
5. Problems of the Panama Canal: Including Climatology of the Isthmus, Physics by Henry Larcom Abbot (1907)
"... intervals of about 8 metres (26 feet) these slopes are cut by horizontal bermes
from ‘5 metres to 3 metres in width (i6 to 10 feet), to favor drainage. ..."
6. Manual of the American Railway Engineering Association by American Railway Engineering Association (1911)
"Slopes and bermes. Cross-sectioning of Pits. Etc. Basis. Work Included in Price.
Haul. ... bermes shall consist of the original unbroken ground. 45. ..."
7. The Design of Railway Location: A Study of the Physical and Economic by Clement Clarence Williams (1917)
"Slopes and bermes. 44. Side slopes of borrow pits on the right of way shall be
the same as used in ... bermes shall consist of the original unbroken ground. ..."
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