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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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