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Definition of Protective embankment
1. Noun. A steep artificial slope in front of a fortification.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Protective Embankment
Literary usage of Protective embankment
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1879)
"The large quantity of mud washed up by the tides necessitated the throwing up of
a protective embankment during the construction. ..."
2. The Irrigation Works of India by Robert Burton Buckley (1905)
"... originally, no embankment, but in 1892 the bank of the river was topped by a
flood, and the protective embankment, shown on the sketch, was made. ..."
3. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1898)
"... so that here it would have to be carefully considered whether it would be
sufficient and best to build a protective embankment, or to carry the line ..."
4. Papers Relating to the Orissa Coast Canal by India Public Works Dept (1885)
"The eastern side bank of the first three miles of this range has been raised
sufficiently high to form a protective embankment against the ..."
5. The Indus Delta Country: A Memoir, Chiefly on Its Ancient Geography and History by Malcolm Robert Haig (1894)
"If any protective embankment had been constructed in the vicinity of the ancient
capital it must have had for its object the restraining of the river from ..."
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