embankments Definition

dikes, dykes, levees, dams, berms, bridges, earthworks, walls, slopes, benches, shoals, banks, pews, backfills, fills, riverbanks, bailey bridge, watercourses, revetments, breakwaters, anicut, gabions, bund, distributary, earthen, retaining wall, roadbeds, riverbed, nullah, brahmaputra, weirs, brahmaputra river, landslip, polders, mahanadi, riversides, reservior, indus river, silt, berm, landslides, gullies, rivers, viaducts, riprap, soil erosion, sutlej, nala, yamuna, spillway, brickfields, sandbags, ghats, deltaic, macadamized, canals, boulders, gabion, submergence, floodwater, inundation, groyne, drainage, sandbanks, encroachments, floods, headrace, fortifications, danube river, wadis, sluices, culvert, floodwaters, ponds, sandbars, rivulet, flood plain, cusec, pipra, sluiceway, mangroves, brahmani, pilings, footpaths, rills, wetlands, alluvial soil, hillsides, coastland, fishplates, subsidence, thatches, reservoirs, stupas, piers, soakaway, seawall, shorelines, escarpments, streambed,