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DAM |
Embankment |
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LEVEE |
Embankment |
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SEAWALL |
Shore embankment |
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RAMPART |
Defensive embankment |
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BUND |
An embankment against inundation. |
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DIKE |
An embankment to prevent inundations; a levee. |
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EARTHWORK |
An embankment or construction made of earth. |
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CREST |
The top line of a slope or embankment. |
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STANK |
Water retained by an embankment; a pool water. |
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DELPH |
The drain on the land side of a sea embankment. |
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SEA WALL |
A wall, or embankment, to resist encroachments of the sea. |
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LEAD |
The distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment. |
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REVET |
To face, as an embankment, with masonry, wood, or other
material. |
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SHEETING |
A lining of planks or boards (rarely of metal) for
protecting an embankment. |
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FOOTING |
The thickened or sloping portion of a wall, or of an
embankment at its foot. |
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PITCH |
To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones, as
an embankment or a roadway. |
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FILL |
To make an embankment in, or raise the level of (a low
place), with earth or gravel. |
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TOPSOILING |
The act or art of taking off the top soil of land
before an excavation or embankment is begun. |
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WASH |
To waste or abrade by the force of water in motion; as,
heavy rains wash a road or an embankment. |
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IMBANKMENT |
The act of surrounding with a bank; a bank or mound
raised for defense, a roadway, etc.; an embankment. See Embankment. |
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CREVASSE |
A breach in the levee or embankment of a river, caused by
the pressure of the water, as on the lower Mississippi. |
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FORELAND |
That portion of the natural shore on the outside of the
embankment which receives the stock of waves and deadens their force. |
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CLINOMETER |
An instrument for determining the dip of beds or
strata, pr the slope of an embankment or cutting; a kind of plumb
level. |
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REVETMENT |
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. |