Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of embankment is as below...

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

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..

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

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..

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..

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..

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.

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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..

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

Random Fonts

Most Popular