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▪ I. ‖ bund, n.1 Anglo-Indian.|bʌnd|
[Hindustani band; of Persian origin.]
In India: ‘Any artificial embankment, a dam, dyke, or causeway.’ In the Anglo-Chinese ports, ‘applied specially to the embanked quay along the shore’. (Col. Yule.)
1813Williamson East-Indian Vade Mec. II. 279 (Y.) The great bund or dyke. 1834Medwin Angler in Wales II. xx. 72 The ‘bund’ is a colossal piece of masonry, consisting of massy walls, the interspace filled up by earth. 1839Thirlwall Greece VII. 83 To remove the dykes, or bunds, by which the ancient kings of Persia or Assyria had obstructed the navigation. 1865Rawlinson Anc. Mon. III. i. 267 A bund or dam thrown across it.
▪ II. bund, v.|bʌnd|
[f. bund n.]
trans. To embank.
1883F. Day Indian Fish 41 Rivers which can be easily bunded. 1917R. Dollar Mem. xiv. 141 The river front had been substantially bunded.
So ˈbunding vbl. n., embanking; embankment.
1939Geogr. Jrnl. XCIII. 136 The more common forms [of soil conservation] include silt pits, contour terracing (or bunding), and contour drains. 1950E. M. Hough Co-operative Movement in India (ed. 2) iii. 170 The bunding of fields to prevent erosion.
▪ III. bund, bunden, -in
obs. forms of bound ppl. a.2, and pa. pple. of bind. |