Cow stables and pig stys on the berm bank offered no mooring place in the town, and we plied the paddle until we reached a secluded stretch of woodland where we could be alone in our chagrin over the obstinacy of the motor.
Tie up on the berm side (to the left) and don't let yourself get dragged into the flume by the current at the locks.
She rushed across the towpath to chat with the lockmaster's wife and daughters while Mr. Carter towed "Sometub" through the lock and found a suitable place to tie up on the berm bank of the short level.
When I asked the lockmaster for a suitable place to tie up for the night he pointed to a dilapidated dock on the berm bank adjacent to an ancient and densely populated pig pen.
Another advantage of the berm was that it placed the engines of the besiegers on the remote side of the ditch at a greater distance from the walls, and thereby lessened the effect of the missiles discharged from them.
In military phraseology the berm is the space of ground between the base of a rampart and the ditch.
Usually our levee gangs follow along and tamp the sand down, or else spread it back from the berm where it has no chance to slide.
All sod should be taken up carefully and used on the parapet for concealment or on the berm to make a square back wall for the dirt of the parapet.
It should never be more than 3 feet 4 inches belowberm of parapet.
On one occasion while this work was in progress, a party was working at night in front of Bailleul when a machine-gun opened, and a boy slid from the berm into the trench and lay on the duck-board groaning heavily.
The minimum breadth of the berm was laid down as three feet.
Better forms may be constructed, with one side resting on the berm by using short uprights with overhead cover, a slit on all sides being provided for observation.
It will be noted that in some of the diagrams of the trenches now being used in the European War the berm has been eliminated entirely.
