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Definition of Embayments
1. embayment [n] - See also: embayment
Lexicographical Neighbors of Embayments
Literary usage of Embayments
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin (1904)
"Choked embayments. — A large number of choked up embayments and estuaries along
the Brazilian coast might be placed here in evidence. ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1910)
"The embayments or scallops produced in their upper course by meanders that come
in contact with the bluff are of identical measurement with the meanders and ..."
3. Reports of All the Cases Decided by All the Superior Courts Relating to by Edward William Cox, Great BRitain Magistrates' cases (1903)
"Within the two embayments to which importance is attached in the case were windows
which were used for the exhibition of shop goods. ..."
4. Reports of Cases in Criminal Law Argued and Determined in All the Courts in by Edward William Cox (1902)
"The embayments in question existed over the ground floor of a building which ...
The upper part of the building overhung the embayments, and the main wall ..."
5. The Life of the Pleistocene Or Glacial Period: As Recorded in the Deposits by Frank Collins Baker (1920)
"... which usually develop in such situations, where wind and current action are
at work in comparatively shallow water. a. Comparison with modern embayments ..."
6. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1905)
"For want of free communication between these embayments, their faunas developed
distinctive aspects. When the sea re-advanced upon the land in the early ..."
7. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1907)
"For want of free communication between these embayments, their faunas developed
distinctive aspects. When the sea re-advanced upon the land in the early ..."
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