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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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..

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..

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

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.

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

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.

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

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..

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