embank

It seemed so very odd that anybody should embank a roadway.

There had been a long history of failed proposals to embank the Thames in central London.

In Friesland and Groningen plans were made to embank and drain the Wadden Sea.

As mentioned above, the monastery and the church, due to the work to embank the torrent Polcevera (middle of the 19th century), passed from the right to the left bank of the stream.

The government had planned to dredge and embank stretches of the Delta's main river, the Boro, to make more water available for the town of Maun, for irrigation and other development projects, and a diamond mine downstream at Orapa.