At the moment only some 35 miles of earthwork have been completed from Qum, and no permanent way has been laid.
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Earthwork
//ˈɝθwɝk//
Synonyms for "earthwork" (96 found)
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7 translations across 6 languages.
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 土方工程 noun (structure made from earth)
Finnish
1 entries- maavalli noun (structure made from earth)
German
1 entries- Erdarbeit noun (structure made from earth)
Italian
2 entries- montarozzo noun (structure made from earth)
- terrapieno noun (structure made from earth)
Māori
1 entries- maioro noun (structure made from earth)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- اور noun (structure made from earth)
Sample sentences
2 total sentences available.
The line was built by navvies using little more than wheelbarrows and shovels, with whatever material was close at hand, and the railway suffered from earthworks problems right from the start.
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