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To throw up a bank so as to confine or to defend; to protect by a bank of earth or stone.

The act of surrounding or defending with a bank.

To raise a mound or dike about; to inclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank. "Banked well with earth." Holland.

An embankment against inundation. [India] S. Wells Williams.

e moved in ancient times from Heliopolis to Alexandria, one of which is now on the Thames Embankment in London, and the other in Central Park, in the City of New York.

An instrument for determining the dip of beds or strata, pr the slope of an embankment or cutting; a kind of plumb level. Dana.

unter distinction, contradistinction. [Obs.] -- Counter drain, a drain at the foot of the embankment of a canal or watercourse, for carrying off the water that may soak through. -- Counter extension (Surg.), the fixation of the upper part of a limb, while extension is practiced on the lower part, as in cases of luxati…

way (Fort.), a corridor or banquette along the top of the counterscarp and covered by an embankment whose slope forms the glacis. It gives the garrisonn an open line of communication around the works, and a standing place beyond the ditch. See Illust. of Ravelin.

The top line of a slope or embankment. Crest tile, a tile made to cover the ridge of a roof, fitting upon it like a saddle. -- Interior crest (Fort.), the highest line of the parapet.

A deep crevice or fissure, as in embankment; one of the clefts or fissure by which the mass of a glacier is divided.

The drain on the land side of a sea embankment. Knight.

An embankment to prevent inundations; a levee. Dikes that the hands of the farmers had raised . . . Shut out the turbulent tides. Longfellow.

The operation connected with excavations and embankments of earth in preparing foundations of buildings, in constructing canals, railroads, etc.

To make an embankment in, or raise the level of (a low place), with earth or gravel. To fill in, to insert; as, he filled in the figures. -- To fill out, to extend or enlarge to the desired limit; to make complete; as, to fill out a bill. -- To fill up, to make quite full; to fill to the brim or entirely; to occupy c…

The thickened or sloping portion of a wall, or of an embankment at its foot. Footing course (Arch.), one of the courses of masonry at the foot of a wall, broader than the courses above. -- To pay one's footing, to pay a fee on first doing anything, as working at a trade or in a shop. Wright. -- Footing beam, the tie…

That portion of the natural shore on the outside of the embankment which receives the stock of waves and deadens their force. Knight.

A sluice in embankments against the sea, for letting out the land waters, when the tide is out. [Written also gowt.]

or stake indicating by its height or by marks on it the grade of a railroad, highway, or embankment, etc., at that spot.

To inclose or defend with a bank or banks. See Embank.

e act of surrounding with a bank; a bank or mound raised for defense, a roadway, etc.; an embankment. See Embankment.