Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of embankment is as below...

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.) The act of surrounding or defending with a bank.

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

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

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.

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

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..

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

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..

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

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

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

Crevasse :: Crevasse (n.) A deep crevice or fissure, as in embankment; one of the clefts or fissure by which the mass of a glacier is divided..

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

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..

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

Random Fonts

Most Popular