flood bank

Now it's cut off from the river by a high flood bank.

The Arabs have put some men down by the flood bank.

He turned north and picked his way along the flood bank of the Euphrates.

At this point, a sort of flood bank had been raised long ago between the house and low-lying orchard.

The river section is marked by high flood banks.

He pulled out his revolver, fired in the air, and escaped over a nearby flood bank.

The Israeli commandos came ashore and began moving in single file along the flood bank.

The floodplain is largely turned over to grassland with flood banks.

In the lower reaches it is enclosed by flood banks with little associated natural habitat remaining.

Around the east side of the defences, a possible flood bank may also have doubled as a bypass road, though this is probably relatively late.

The flood banks on this lower section are up to half a mile wide so that the meandering river will form a large lake.

All along the flooded banks of the river, village farmers measured the waters and watched, waiting for their retreat.

His heels crashed through the castor oil bushes and his feet hit the flood bank.

Because the construction has breached the flood bank, it is protected by a flood gate.

Below the lock, the surrounding land is almost at sea level, and the river is constrained by flood banks on both sides.

The flood bank was subsequently strengthened and repaired, following further Trent floods in 1824 and 1852.

The second flood occurred after the flood bank stabilisation project had been completed in the early 1970s.

Stoke Ferry, with its fine windmill sits close to the northern bank of the river, protected from it by flood banks.

Jews were permitted to build houses for themselves on the "Street of the Jews" (which then was by the flood bank).

At the same time, the New Bedford River was made wider and deeper, while some of the flood banks were also raised.

As the waters recede, their spawning tunnels can be seen in serried rows in the flood bank.

In the fertile plains of Northern Italy the mountains gave way to ditches, canals and flood banks.

Both letters refer to a small section of between the end of the footway and the start of the flood bank proper.

Succeeding generations of farmers built flood banks to create arable land out of a web of rivulets.

In the 2005 flood, the river swelled to within 5 cms of breaching the flood banks that had been put in place seven years prior.