Associations to the word «Embankment»

Wiktionary

EMBANKMENT, noun. A long artificial mound of earth and stone, built to hold back water, for protection or to support a road

Dictionary definition

EMBANKMENT, noun. A long artificial mound of stone or earth; built to hold back water or to support a road or as protection.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope