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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..

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

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

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..

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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..

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.

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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