Berm vs. Knoll — What's the Difference?

A berm is a level space, shelf, or raised barrier (usually made of compacted soil) separating areas in a vertical way, especially part-way up a long slope. It can serve as a terrace road, track, path, a fortification line, a border/separation barrier for navigation, good drainage, industry, or other purposes.

A small rounded hill or mound; a hillock.

A flat strip of land, raised bank, or terrace bordering a river or canal.

A knell.

A narrow ledge or shelf, as along the top or bottom of a slope.

To ring mournfully; knell.

Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, & West Virginia The shoulder of a road.

To ring or sound (a bell, for example) mournfully; knell.

A raised bank or path, especially the bank of a canal opposite the towpath.

A small mound or rounded hill.

A nearly horizontal or landward-sloping portion of a beach, formed by the deposition of sediment by storm waves.

(oceanography) A rounded, underwater hill with a prominence of less than 1,000 metres, which does not breach the water's surface.

A mound or bank of earth, used especially as a barrier or to provide insulation.

A knell.

The flat space between the edge of a ditch and the base of a fortification.

(transitive) To ring (a bell) mournfully; to knell.

To provide with a berm or berms.

(ambitransitive) To sound (something) like a bell; to knell.

A narrow ledge or shelf, as along the top or bottom of a slope.

(transitive) To call (someone, to church) by sounding or making a knell (as a bell, a trumpet, etc).

A raised bank or path, especially the bank of a canal opposite the towpath.

To arrange related objects in parallel or at 90 degree angles.

A terrace formed by wave action along a beach.

A little round hill; a mound; a small elevation of earth; the top or crown of a hill.

A mound or bank of earth, used especially as a barrier or to provide insulation.

The tolling of a bell; a knell.

A ledge between the parapet and the moat in a fortification.

To ring, as a bell; to strike a knell upon; to toll; to proclaim, or summon, by ringing.

A strip of land between a street and sidewalk.

To sound, as a bell; to knell.

(Western Pennsylvania English) Edge of a road.

A small natural hill

To provide something with a berm

A narrow shelf or path between the bottom of a parapet and the ditch.

A ledge at the bottom of a bank or cutting, to catch earth that may roll down the slope, or to strengthen the bank.

A narrow ledge or shelf typically at the top or bottom of a slope

Narrow edge of land (usually unpaved) along the side of a road