0 a bank or ridge made eg to keep back water or to carry a railway/railroad over low-lying places etc. -- การสร้างเขื่อน
The resource owners, knowing the importance of embankments to protect their lands, would cooperate through enabling institutions to ensure their maintenance.
Here the schoolboy who was thrown over the embankment at his new school has just finished an extensive description of his injuries.
For the high embankment model, less land is optimal for fisheries as compared with the base model.
The terms embankments and levees are used interchangeably here.
First, we have not made any attempt to measure the reduction in flood damages brought about by structural changes in the floodplain, such as embankments.
Anthropogenically modified habitats, especially raised embankments on the floodplain, were often used.
The embankment buildings are designed with grass roofs.
The embankment was thereafter increased a further 3 feet in height.