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embankment

a long artificial mound of stone or earth; built to hold back water or to support a road or as protection

Synonyms:

• L,
• abutment,
• anchorage,
• anchorage ground,
• anthill,
• arc-boutant,
• arch dam,
• backstop,
• bamboo curtain,
• bank,
• bar,
• barrage,
• barrier,
• basin,
• beach,
• beam,
• bear-trap dam,
• beaver dam,
• berm,
• berth,
• boom,
• branch,
• breakwater,
• breastwork,
• brick wall,
• buffer,
• bulkhead,
• bulwark,
• buttress,
• buttress pier,
• buttressing,
• cable railway,
• coast,
• coastland,
• coastline,
• cock,
• cofferdam,
• cog railway,
• dam,
• defense,
• dike,
• ditch,
• dock,
• dockage,
• dockyard,
• drift,
• dry dock,
• dune,
• earthwork,
• el,
• electric railway,
• elevated,
• elevated railway,
• feeder,
• feeder line,
• fence,
• flying buttress,
• foreshore,
• gate,
• gravity dam,
• gravity-operated railway,
• groin,
• hanging buttress,
• harbor,
• harborage,
• haven,
• haycock,
• haymow,
• hayrick,
• haystack,
• heap,
• hill,
• horse railway,
• hydraulic-fill dam,
• iron curtain,
• ironbound coast,
• jam,
• jetty,
• junction,
• jutty,
• landing,
• landing place,
• landing stage,
• leaping weir,
• levee,
• lido,
• light railroad,
• line,
• littoral,
• logjam,
• main line,
• marina,
• metro,
• milldam,
• moat,
• mole,
• molehill,
• monorail,
• moorings,
• mound,
• mow,
• parapet,
• pier,
• pier buttress,
• pile,
• plage,
• playa,
• port,
• portcullis,
• protected anchorage,
• pyramid,
• quay,
• rack railway,
• rack-and-pinion railway,
• rail,
• rail line,
• railroad,
• railway,
• rampart,
• retaining wall,
• rick,
• riverside,
• riviera,
• road,
• roadbed,
• roadblock,
• roads,
• roadstead,
• roadway,
• rock-fill dam,
• rockbound coast,
• sands,
• sea margin,
• seabank,
• seabeach,
• seaboard,
• seacliff,
• seacoast,
• seaport,
• seashore,
• seaside,
• seawall,
• shingle,
• shipyard,
• shore,
• shoreline,
• shoulder,
• shutter dam,
• sidetrack,
• siding,
• slip,
• snowdrift,
• stack,
• stone wall,
• strand,
• street railway,
• streetcar line,
• submerged coast,
• subway,
• switchback,
• terminal,
• terminus,
• tidewater,
• track,
• tram,
• tramline,
• trestle,
• trolley line,
• trunk,
• trunk line,
• tube,
• turnout,
• underground,
• wall,
• waterfront,
• waterside,
• weir,
• wharf,
• wicket dam,
• work