embank
Construct flood barriers
To embank is to confine or protect with an embankment—a raised barrier of earth or stone.
Rivers are embanked to prevent flooding; roads and railways are embanked to maintain level passage across uneven terrain.
The word is technical and appears mainly in engineering contexts: The river was embanked to protect the lowland farms.
River flood barrier
- dikeWall against flooding
- damWater-holding barrier
- bermRaised strip alongside roads
- causewayRaised road over water
retaining wall · earthwork · fill · grade · mound · barrier · containment · shore up
levee
River flood barrier
causeway · retaining wall · earthwork · fill · grade · mound · barrier · containment · shore up · buttress
canal
Dug water passage
pond · waterway · flood control · drainage · irrigation · riparian · shoreline · stream · lake · containment
trackbed
Railway's supporting base
cutting · right-of-way · ballast · rail corridor · viaduct · elevated · slope · subgrade · alignment · gradient