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Embankment :: Embankment (n.) The act of surrounding or defending with a bank.

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..

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

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

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

Foreland :: Foreland (n.) That portion of the natural shore on the outside of the embankment which receives the stock of waves and deadens their force.

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

Delph :: Delph (n.) The drain on the land side of a sea 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..

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..

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

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..

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

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

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.

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

Earthwork :: Earthwork (n.) The operation connected with excavations and embankments of earth in preparing foundations of buildings, in constructing canals, railroads, etc..

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

Bank :: Bank (v. t.) To raise a mound or dike about; to inclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank..

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

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