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Definition of Embank
1. Verb. Enclose with banks, as for support or protection. "The river was embanked with a dyke"
Definition of Embank
1. v. t. To throw up a bank so as to confine or to defend; to protect by a bank of earth or stone.
Definition of Embank
1. Verb. To throw up a bank so as to confine or to defend; to protect by a bank of earth or stone. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Embank
1. to confine or protect with a raised structure [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Embank
Literary usage of Embank
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. London: Being an Accurate History and Description of the British Metropolis by David Hughson (1805)
"... for enabling certain persons to enclose and embank part of the river Thames,
adjoining Durham the house of two publishers of newspapers, ..."
2. Notes on the California Reports, Supplementary to the 1906 Edition of Notes ...by Charles Lawrence Thompson, Bancroft-Whitney Company, California Supreme Court by Charles Lawrence Thompson, Bancroft-Whitney Company, California Supreme Court (1912)
"Right to embank Against Water turned out of stream. See note, 6 LRA (n. в.) 137.
Liability for Damming Back Stream. See note, 59 LRA 905. ..."
3. Reports of the Late John Smeaton, F.R.S., Made on Various Occasions, in the by John Smeaton (1837)
"To scour out and embank Dun's Dike, from the river Witham to the Carr Dike (or
instead thereof to reinstate the Carr Dike, and turn its waters therein), ..."
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