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Navvy :: Navvy (n.) Originally, a laborer on canals for internal navigation; hence, a laborer on other public works, as in building railroads, embankments, etc..

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..

Embanked :: Embanked (imp. & p. p.) of Emban.

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

Levee :: Levee (n.) An embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along the Mississippi; sometimes, the steep bank of a river..

Crevasse :: Crevasse (n.) A breach in the levee or embankment of a river, caused by the pressure of the water, as on the lower Mississippi..

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

Stank :: Stank (n.) Water retained by an embankment; a pool water.

Work :: Work (n.) Structures in civil, military, or naval engineering, as docks, bridges, embankments, trenches, fortifications, and the like; also, the structures and grounds of a manufacturing establishment; as, iron works; locomotive works; gas works..

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

Crest :: Crest (n.) The top line of a slope or embankment.

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

Embank :: Embank (v. t.) To throw up a bank so as to confine or to defend; to protect by a bank of earth or stone.

Dike :: Dike (n.) An embankment to prevent inundations; a levee.

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

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

Imbankment :: Imbankment (n.) The act of surrounding with a bank; a bank or mound raised for defense, a roadway, etc.; an embankment. See Embankment..

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

Lead :: Lead (n.) the distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment..

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

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