Embanked
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Embanked is an adjective meaning Protected by or containing embankments.
Meaning
Protected by or containing embankments.
More Meanings
- simple past and past participle of embank
Example Sentences
Most of the older buildings are of reddish-brown ironstone with mossy-tiled roofs, and almost all have stone-embanked gardens, richly planted and expertly maintained.
The open floodplains in the Long Xuyen Quadrangle became more and more embanked, and therefore the conditions for flood-adapted, traditional floating rice increasingly declined.
As it approaches its conflux, this creek becomes more and more embanked, and difficult to ford: the heights are equal on the two banks; but for this reason the advantage was in favour of him who defended the passage.
North of the wood from the Hospice Redoubt stood Red Château where today stands a cottage, its position edging what was then a sunken road, the remains of its original course still visible alongside the more embanked road of today.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include sluiceway, headrace, hummock, metalled, rills, millrace.
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