embankment

DEFINITIONS OF: embankment

Examples:: Antonine Wall
a fortification 37 miles long across the narrowest part of southern Scotland (between the Firth of Forth and the Firth of Clyde); built in 140 to mark the frontier of the Roman province of Britain; Great Wall of China
a fortification 1,500 miles long built across northern China in the 3rd century BC; it averages 6 meters in width

Types:: show 7 types...; hide 7 types...; levee
an embankment that is built in order to prevent a river from overflowing; bulwark, rampart, wall
an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes; bailey
the outer defensive wall that surrounds the outer courtyard of a castle; battlement, crenelation, crenellation
a rampart built around the top of a castle with regular gaps for firing arrows or guns; earthwork
an earthen rampart; fraise
sloping or horizontal rampart of pointed stakes; merlon
a solid section between two crenels in a crenelated battlement

Type of:: hill, mound
structure consisting of an artificial heap or bank usually of earth or stones

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