Embayment

//ɪmˈbeɪmənt// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A bay. (the water)

    "The path climbed along a wall of purple sandstone above an embayment and in the sunlit shadows below him he could see the long cataphracted forms of gars lying in a kind of electric repose among the reeds."

  2. 2
    an indentation of a shoreline larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf wordnet
  3. 3
    The shoreline of a bay, an indentation in a shoreline. (the land, not the water)
  4. 4
    A topographical feature that used to be a bay, like the Mississippi embayment.
  5. 5
    The process by which a bay is formed.

Etymology

From em- + bay + -ment.

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