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

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..

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Rampart :: Rampart (n.) A broad embankment of earth round a place, upon which the parapet is raised. It forms the substratum of every permanent fortification..

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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