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earthwork (n.)
"mounds of earth thrown up for some purpose, especially as a military fortification," 1630s, from
earth
+
work
(n.). In this sense Old English had
eorðbyrig
"mound, embankment;" Old English
eorðweorc
meant "work on the land."
