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Sea Wall :: Sea wall () A wall, or embankment, to resist encroachments of the sea..

Imbank :: Imbank (v. t.) To inclose or defend with a bank or banks. See Embank.

Earthwork :: Earthwork (n.) An embankment or construction made of earth.

Wharfing :: Wharfing (n.) A mode of facing sea walls and embankments with planks driven as piles and secured by ties.

Pitch :: Pitch (v. t.) To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones, as an embankment or a roadway..

Footing :: Footing (n.) The thickened or sloping portion of a wall, or of an embankment at its foot..

Embankment :: Embankment (n.) A structure of earth, gravel, etc., raised to prevent water from overflowing a level tract of country, to retain water in a reservoir, or to carry a roadway, etc..

Revetment :: Revetment (v. t.) A facing of wood, stone, or any other material, to sustain an embankment when it receives a slope steeper than the natural slope; also, a retaining wall..

Polder :: Polder (n.) A tract of low land reclaimed from the sea by of high embankments.

Bund :: Bund (n.) An embankment against inundation.

Clinometer :: Clinometer (n.) An instrument for determining the dip of beds or strata, pr the slope of an embankment or cutting; a kind of plumb level..

Fill :: Fill (a.) To make an embankment in, or raise the level of (a low place), with earth or gravel..

Revet :: Revet (v. t.) To face, as an embankment, with masonry, wood, or other material..

Embanking :: Embanking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Emban.

Topsoiling :: Topsoiling (n.) The act or art of taking off the top soil of land before an excavation or embankment is begun.

Ravelin :: Ravelin (n.) A detached work with two embankments which make a salient angle. It is raised before the curtain on the counterscarp of the place. Formerly called demilune, and half-moon..

Wash :: Wash (v. t.) To waste or abrade by the force of water in motion; as, heavy rains wash a road or an embankment..

Go-out :: Go-out (n.) A sluice in embankments against the sea, for letting out the land waters, when the tide is out..

Sheeting :: Sheeting (n.) A lining of planks or boards (rarely of metal) for protecting an embankment.

Crevasse :: Crevasse (n.) A deep crevice or fissure, as in embankment; one of the clefts or fissure by which the mass of a glacier is divided..

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