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Embankment

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Embank

To throw up a bank so as to confine or to defend to protect by a bank of earth or stone

Thames

SANITARY AUTHO-RITY; LONDON, PORT OF; and Land Drainage Act, 1930 (20 & 21 Geo. 5, c. 44). Thames Embankment, from Westiminster Bridge to Blackfriars Bridge (25 & 26 Vict. c. 93; 26 & 27 Vict. cc. 45,

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Imbankment

The act of surrounding with a bank a bank or mound raised for defense a roadway etc an embankment See Embankment

Approach

tunnel, means the highway giving access to it, that is the surface of the highway together with any embankment, retaining wall or other work or substance supporting or protecting surface, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 21, 4th

Powdikes

Powdikes, an ancient dyke or embankment to keep out the fen waters. Destroying them in the fens of Norfolk and Ely is felony by

Dam

Dam [fr. dam, Dan.; dammer, Icel.], a boundary or confinement; a mole an embankment to restain water.

Bridge

its maintenance, the surface of the highway carried by or giving access to the bridge and to any embankment, retaining wall or other work or substance supporting or protecting the surface of that highway, Halsbury's Laws of

Sea wall

A wall or embankment to resist encroachments of the sea

Revetment

A facing of wood stone or any other material to sustain an embankment when it receives a slope steeper than the natural slope also a retaining wall

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