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embankments

[em-bangk-muhnt]

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noun

1.

a bank, mound, dike, or the like, raised to hold back water, carry a roadway, etc.

2.

the action of embanking.

Origin:
1780–90; embank + -ment

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embankment

1786, from embank "to enclose with a bank" (1576).

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