floodwall

English

Alternative forms

• flood wall

Etymology

From flood +‎ wall.

Noun

floodwall (plural floodwalls)

1. A man-made vertical barrier designed to temporarily contain the waters of a river or other waterway during a flood
   • 2007 May 29, John Schwartz, “Can Science Outwit Storms Like Katrina?”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     The New Orleans levees and floodwalls were built to withstand a hypothetical storm […] .

Translations

barrier

• Finnish: tulvavalli
• Maori: tupehau

See also

• floodwall on Wikipedia.Wikipedia