Associations to the word «Embank»

Wiktionary

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

Dictionary definition

EMBANK, verb. Enclose with banks, as for support or protection; "The river was embanked with a dyke".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne