embanked's Usage Examples:

Canals connect Louth with the Humber, Sleaford with the Witham, and Grantham with the Trent near Nottingham; but the greater rivers and many of the drainage cuts are navigable, being artificially deepened and embanked.

, the record construction of 5300 yds surveyed, embanked and laid in one day having been attained.

In addition, various kinds of canals and endiked or embanked lakes had come into existence, forming altogether a vast network of more or less stagnant waters.

Below London Bridge the river is embanked for a short distance in front of the Tower of London, and above Westminster Bridge the Albert Embankment extends for nearly 1 m.

On the west bank of the huge colossi of Memnon marked the entrance of his funerary temple, a magnificent building which was afterwards destroyed, and the great lake of Birket Habu was dug and embanked in front of his brick palace at the extreme south.

embanked path, passing pylons and old allotments on your right.

We do not always know the least resistance which it is safe to give to a retaining wall subject to the pressure of earth, or conversely, the maximum resistance to side-thrust which natural or embanked earth will afford, because we wisely neglect the important but very variable element of adhesion between the particles.

The river is embanked and is crossed by the Pont Doumer, a fine railway bridge over i m.

The river is embanked from Piacenza, and continuously from Cremona, the total length of the embankments exceeding 600 m.

harbour front runs the Paseo (Alameda) de Paula (1 77 2 - 1 775, improved 1844-1845), an embanked drive, continued by the Paseo de Rocali and the Cortina de Valdes, with fine views of the forts and the harbour.

Synonyms:

confine, enclose, hold in,

Antonyms:

free, enable, increase, unsheathe,