English Explanatory Dictionary

rockfill

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A dam's embankment of compacted free-draining granular earth, often containing rocks, with an impervious zone.

Word forms

rockfill rockfills rock-fill

Etymology

From rock + fill.

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