Berme

1. n. A ledge at the bottom of a bank or cutting, to catch earth that may roll down the slope, or to strengthen the bank.
2. n. A narrow shelf or path between the bottom of a parapet and the ditch.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.