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

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