embank
(verb) enclose with banks, as for support or protection; “The river was embanked with a dyke”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
embank (third-person singular simple present embanks, present participle embanking, simple past and past participle embanked)
to throw up a bank so as to confine or to defend; to protect by a bank of earth or stone
Source: Wiktionary
Em*bank", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Embanked; p. pr. & vb. n. Embanking.] Etym: [Pref. em- + bank. Cf. Imbank.]
Definition: To throw up a bank so as to confine or to defend; to protect by a bank of earth or stone.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 January 2025
(adjective) being or located on or directed toward the side of the body to the west when facing north; “my left hand”; “left center field”; “the left bank of a river is bank on your left side when you are facing downstream”
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