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

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

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..

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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