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▪ I. embankment1|ɛmˈbæŋkmənt|
[f. embank v. + -ment.]
1. The action or process of embanking.
1874Helps Social Pressure iii. 50 For instance the embankment of the Thames.
2. A mound, bank, or other structure for confining a river, etc. within fixed limits.
1786Burke Art. W. Hastings Wks. 1842 II. 159 To make..new and additional embankments in aid of the old ones. a1806S. Horsley Serm. xxix. (1810) II. 404 To him Babylon owed..the embankments which confined the river. 1832G. Downes Lett. Cont. Countries I. 490 The islets are defended from the water by earthen embankments. Mod. Cleopatra's Needle is on the Thames Embankment.
fig.1875Hamerton Intell. Life x. ix. 384 Some solid embankment of unshakable rule and resolution.
3. A long earthen bank or mound, esp. one raised for the purpose of carrying a road or a railway across a valley.
1810J. T. in Risdon's Surv. Devon Introd. 33 A vast embankment, over which the canal is carried. 1846J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. II. 194 Early crops may..be protected by..embankments of earth..at the north side. 1862Rep. E. Ind. Railw. Comp. 19 The embankments, nevertheless, have not suffered more than was expected. 1872J. Ruskin Fors Clav. II. xix. 13 Spend annually one-tenth of the sum you now give to build embankments against imaginary enemies in building embankments for the help of people whom you may easily make your real friends.
▪ II. † emˈbankment2 rare.
[f. em- + bank n.3 + -ment.]
A banking speculation; a bank account. Also attrib.
1813Shelley in Hogg Life (1858) II. 198 The embankment affairs in which I thoughtlessly engaged. 18..Jeffrey Let. in Cockburn Life II. 365, I am sorry your embankment is no larger. Ibid. 429 And how does the embankment proceed? |