Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
noun
- a bank, mound, dike, or the like, raised to hold back water, carry a roadway, etc.
- the action of embanking.
noun
- a man-made ridge of earth or stone that carries a road or railway or confines a waterwaySee also levee 1
1786, from embank “to enclose with a bank” (1570s; see bank (n.2)) + -ment.