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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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..

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