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To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones, as an embankment or a roadway. Knight.

A tract of low land reclaimed from the sea by of high embankments. [Holland & Belgium]

A broad embankment of earth round a place, upon which the parapet is raised. It forms the substratum of every permanent fortification. Mahan.

A detached work with two embankments with make a salient angle. It is raised before the curtain on the counterscarp of the place. Formerly called demilune and half-moon.

To face, as an embankment, with masonry, wood, or other material.

A facing of wood, stone, or any other material, to sustain an embankment when it receives a slope steeper than the natural slope; also, a retaining wall. [Written also revêtement (

A wall, or embankment, to resist encroachments of the sea.

A lining of planks or boards (rarely of metal) for protecting an embankment.

Water retained by an embankment; a pool water. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Robert of Brunne.

The act or art of taking off the top soil of land before an excavation or embankment is begun.

To waste or abrade by the force of water in motion; as, heavy rains wash a road or an embankment.

A mode of facing sea walls and embankments with planks driven as piles and secured by ties. Knight.

Structures in civil, military, or naval engineering, as docks, bridges, embankments, trenches, fortifications, and the like; also, the structures and grounds of a manufacturing establishment; as, iron works; locomotive works; gas works. (d) pl.