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embank, v.|ɛmˈbæŋk|
Also 7 imbank, v.
[f. en- + bank n.1; cf. Fr. embanquer.]
1. trans. To enclose, shut in, confine, or protect by banks; esp. to confine the course of (a river) by a mound, dyke, or raised structure of stone or other material.
1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 351 Or what should become of the water, if it were not imbancked with the earth? 1700Tyrrell Hist. Eng. II. 814 No River..shall be imbanked. 1770Monthly Rev. 490 Embank the north side of the Thames. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. II. 526 A..lofty..mound.. embanked one side of the river. 1808J. Barlow Columb. i. 517 York leads his wave, imbank'd in flowery pride. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xl. (1856) 363 This hole was critically circular..symmetrically embanked.
b. to embank out: to exclude (the sea) by embankments.
1822in Picton L'pool Munic. Rec. (1886) II. 353 To embank out the sea at that place.
†2. intr. Of a ship: To run aground. Obs. [Cf. F. embanquer in this sense.]
1649Drummond of Hawthornden Hist. Jas. IV Wks. (1711) 64 The English ships..embanked, and stuck moor'd upon the shelves.
3. To cover with embankments; to cut into embankments.
1872J. Ruskin Fors Clav. II. xix. 13 The operation of embanking hill-sides, so as to stay the rain-flow, is a work of enormous cost and difficulty. |