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There will also be a produce stand and an earthen oven with baked goods.
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The earthen path eventually spanned nearly a half-mile, and grew strong enough to uproot pines and move boulders heavier than cars.
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An earthen channel is more environmentally friendly.
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Animals were accustomed to finding relief at the stock pond where the horses died, but locals say the pool of water beneath the decades-old earthen dam has dried up more quickly each year.
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What Bourgeois is doing right now is getting ready to invite about 50,000 dump trucks into the park to dump enough dirt to shore up 2 miles of old earthen barriers.
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The 200-acre lake with its huge earthen dam and slopes of large rocks can store up to 8.7 billion gallons — the equivalent of a storm that dumps up to 9 inches of rain over a 74-square-mile area.
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The city of Cahokia is one of many large earthen mound complexes that dot the landscapes of the Ohio and Mississippi River Valleys and across the Southeast.
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Each in turn saw the jackdaws dead on the earthen floor: seven, as there were seven of them. . .
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First Known Use of earthen
13th century
EARTHEN Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of earthen for English Language Learners
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: made of earth or of baked clay
EARTHEN Defined for Kids
Definition of earthen for Students
: made of earth or of baked clay
- an earthen dam
- an earthen jar
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