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

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

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.

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.

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..

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

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..

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

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

Embankment :: Embankment (n.) A structure of earth, gravel, etc., raised to prevent water from overflowing a level tract of country, to retain water in a reservoir, or to carry a roadway, etc..

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

Sea Wall :: Sea wall () A wall, or embankment, to resist encroachments of the sea..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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