Embankment
[ɪm'bæŋkm(ə)nt;em-] or [ɪm'bæŋkmənt]
Definition
(noun.) a long artificial mound of stone or earth; built to hold back water or to support a road or as protection.
Typist: Nicholas--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of surrounding or defending with a bank.
(n.) A structure of earth, gravel, etc., raised to prevent water from overflowing a level tract of country, to retain water in a reservoir, or to carry a roadway, etc.
Typed by Catherine
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you drive along an embankment, foretells you will be threatened with trouble and unhappiness. If you continue your drive without unpleasant incidents arising, you will succeed in turning these forebodings to useful account in your advancement. To ride on horseback along one, denotes you will fearlessly meet and overcome all obstacles in your way to wealth and happiness. To walk along one, you will have a weary struggle for elevation, but will &ally reap a successful reward.
Typist: Sam
Examples
- I went up the embankment as fast as I could go. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Piani picked up Aymo's cap where it had rolled down the embankment and put it over his face. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Aymo lay in the mud with the angle of the embankment. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- He lay in the mud on the side of the embankment, his feet pointing downhill, breathing blood irregularly. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The ties had been dug out too and thrown down the embankment. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Then Hermione and Miss Bradley swam over, and they sat in a row on the embankment. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- When we came near the churchyard, we had to cross an embankment, and get over a stile near a sluice-gate. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- We dropped down beside the embankment. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- I started down the embankment. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- We went down the north side of the embankment. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- We all started down the embankment. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- I climbed down and crouched beside the railway embankment. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The Embankment is not on the direct line to the station. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Bonello tired of walking in the mud of the embankment and came up with the rest of us. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- I started up the embankment, slipping in the mud. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- They could hear the small locomotive panting hoarsely as it advanced with caution between the embankments. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Great gangs of men were employed in excavating canals, in making railway cuttings and embankments, and the like. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Its construction involved the building across the bar and out into the Gulf of Mexico two long reaches of parallel embankments, called jetties. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Many citizens secured places of safety for their families by carving out rooms in these embankments. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
Edited by Linda