An embankment, mole, or dam. Obsolete.

A mound, embankment or dam, to retain the water of a river or pond. Obsolete.

An embankment to hold back the water of a river or the sea. Cf. seawall, n.

A breakwater, mole, seawall; an embankment confining the bed of a river. Also figurative.

? An embankment.

local. A fence or embankment to prevent the encroachment of a river or sea-sand, or to turn the course of a stream.

A bank, embankment, or dam, usually forming a boundary or limit. Also figurative. Now rare.

An embankment.

In various technical uses. A wall or embankment constructed to confine, or protect against, a body of water.

A mound, bank, or other structure for confining a river, etc. within fixed limits.

In India: ‘Any artificial embankment, a dam, dyke, or causeway.’ In the Anglo-Chinese ports, ‘applied specially to the embanked quay along the…

A structure or banking of loose stones to prevent the overflow of a river.

(see quot.)

A banking of loose stones to prevent overflowing of a river. Cf. sheath, n.1 6; also camp-sheathing, variant of campshedding, n.

Put for causey, n. in other senses.

A levee, an embankment.