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

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

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..

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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..

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

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

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