Embankment

Blossoms have come out on the embankment.

Sami's body was discovered dumped over a highway embankment in Ontario.

The kids piled into the back of the car, and Mum threw a blanket in behind them before racing round to the front, jumping in and starting the engine as the sea, breaching the embankment, surged down the street towards them.

The dam design includes an emergency spillway weir, to handle flood flows without risking erosion on the rest of the embankment.

The work to be done under these specifications consists in furnishing all materials and erecting a stone embankment, an earth embankment, and a wharf. The stone embankment will contain about 216,000 tons of stone; the earth embankment about 285,000 cubic yards of broken stone, sand, or other suitable material; and the wharf will contain 501,320 feet of timber, and 802 piles, together with the requisite quantity of cast iron mooring bits, wrought iron spikes, bolts, etc.

Sink a trench so the pipe of your water-works will be below ground; have the pump and the mules which work it at such a point and so defended by an epaulement or traverse, or some other defensive embankment, as to shield them.

For thousands of years, societies have stored water, altered river flow, and transformed environments to increase food production or achieve other social or economic goals. The oldest known dam, a small earth embankment structure built about six thousand years ago at Jawa in present-day Jordan, was designed to capture rainfall and increase agricultural production.