Berm

Nietzsche spoke of "Übermenschen," not "Übermänner," so your supermen and overmen can go sit on a fencepost.

The big canals in Europe, in Holland, have a great big berm on the side of the canal several feet wide, which they leave there on purpose to plant reeds in, so as to get a reedy vegetation to protect their slope. Then, beyond that, there is an earthen slope that is grassed and sodded.

On some beaches, the berm grows higher in summer and flattens out in the rougher winter seas.

A berm separates the Moroccan-controlled and Polisario-controlled parts of Western Sahara.

The sun soaked our street in hot yellow, and the berms were gasping for water.