Definition of Embanker

1. one who makes banks or dikes [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Embanker

emballed
emballing
embalm
embalmed
embalmer
embalmers
embalming
embalming room
embalmings
embalmment
embalmments
embalms
embank
embanked
embanker (current term)
embankers
embanking
embankment
embankments
embanks
embar
embarcadere
embarcaderes
embarcadero
embarcaderos
embarcation

Literary usage of Embanker

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The two Babylons; or, The papal worship proved to be the worship of Nimrod by Alexander Hislop (1862)
"Names always tend to abbreviation in the mouths of a people, and, therefore, " The land of Misr" is evidently just "The land of the embanker. ..."

2. The Cultivator by New York State Agricultural Society (1845)
"'ploy a skilful embanker to close a muskrat hole in his dam because he asked a dollar—a sum he would gladly have paid the next clay, when [he hole had ..."

3. The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical by Benjamin Franklin (1882)
"And, if I were to consent to its going, embanker would be obliged to arrest great part of it as belonging to the States, he being in advance for them, ..."

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