, in Fortification, a small space of ground, 4 or 5 feet wide, left without the rampart, between it and the side of the moat, to receive the earth that rolls down from the rampart, and prevent its falling into the ditch and filling it up.—Sometimes, for greater security, the berme is pallisadoed.
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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.
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