Definition of Embanking

1. Verb. (present participle of embank) ¹

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Definition of Embanking

1. embank [v] - See also: embank

Lexicographical Neighbors of Embanking

embalm
embalmed
embalmer
embalmers
embalming
embalming room
embalmings
embalmment
embalmments
embalms
embank
embanked
embanker
embankers
embanking (current term)
embankment
embankments
embanks
embar
embarcadere
embarcaderes
embarcadero
embarcaderos
embarcation
embarge
embarged

Literary usage of Embanking

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Encyclopædia of Agriculture: Comprising the Theory and Practice of the by John Claudius Loudon (1826)
"Of embanking and otherwise protecting Land» from the Overflowing or Encroachment of ... The subject of this chapter therefore embraces that of embanking ..."

2. A Manual of Civil Engineering by William John Macquorn Rankine, William J. Millar (1907)
"It is better to make the steps steeper than the inclination given by this principle than to make them flatter. 201. embanking orcr and near Mii«oiir>. ..."

3. A Practical Treatise on Rail-roads, and Interior Communication in General by Nicholas Wood (1838)
"Excavating and embanking. Let A, B, c, Fig. 1, Plate V., represent a section or the outline of the country, over which the railway is to pass, and a, b, c, ..."

4. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1882)
"That man was Vermuyden, a Dutchman, who planned and carried out a scheme for draining and embanking this great level in 1628. Of the 170000 acres comprising ..."

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