embankment
a bank, mound, dike, or the like, raised to hold back water, carry a roadway, etc.
the action of embanking.
Origin of embankment
1Words Nearby embankment
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2024
How to use embankment in a sentence
The perspective down the center of this painting is the raised embankment of an old railroad bed.
Rackstraw Downes’s Art and Essays Are Two Sides of the Same Genius | Bill Morris | June 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe train bore me away … we passed row after row of little grey slum houses running at right angles to the embankment.
Orwell’s Lies: His Diaries Reveal Problems with the Truth | Jimmy So | August 19, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTThe plane settled about 400 yards from the runway in an embankment off a five-lane highway.
“He climbed back up the embankment and slipped in the mud, got mad and chewed me out for half an hour,” Kronk said bitterly.
“I rolled my Toyota Yaris three times this morning after hitting a six-foot-high dirt embankment at highway speed,” he writes.
The embankment or road-bed was commenced by gigantic piling, and is very broad and substantial.
Glances at Europe | Horace GreeleyHuge, dim forms rushed alongside the embankment, making unearthly sounds.
A Lost Hero | Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward and Herbert D. WardYou must pull yourself together or you'll go stark mad, and then you'll probably go and throw yourself over the embankment.
Uncanny Tales | VariousThe car dashed over the embankment, demolishing many yards of stone wall and coming to rest in a valley hundreds of feet beneath.
British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car | Thomas D. MurphyPresently, I heard it at my own level—the ridge-top of the opposite embankment, a hundred feet or more away.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Complete | Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
British Dictionary definitions for embankment
/ (ɪmˈbæŋkmənt) /
a man-made ridge of earth or stone that carries a road or railway or confines a waterway: See also levee 1
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Browse