seawall
nounEtymology From Middle English se-walle, from Old English sǣweall (“seawall”), equivalent to sea + wall.
1
A coastal defence in the form of a wall or an embankment.
- Derived terms
- seawalled
- Related terms
- breakwater, groyne
Entry derived from the Wiktionary, under licence CC BY-SA 4.0 — list of authors.