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Webster 1913 Edition


Embank

Em-bank′

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Embanked
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Embanking
.]
[Pref.
em-
+
bank
. Cf.
Imbank
.]
To throw up a bank so as to confine or to defend; to protect by a bank of earth or stone.