Definition of Embanking. Meaning of Embanking. Synonyms of Embanking

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Definition of Embanking

Embanking
Embank Em*bank", v. 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.
Embanking
Embar Em*bar", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Embarred; p. pr. & vb. n. Embanking.] [Pref. em- + bar: cf. F. embarrer. Cf. Embargo.] 1. To bar or shut in; to inclose securely, as with bars. Where fast embarred in mighty brazen wall. --Spenser. 2. To stop; to hinder by prohibition; to block up. He embarred all further trade. --Bacon.

Meaning of Embanking from wikipedia

- The Embanking of the tidal Thames is the historical process by which the lower River Thames, at one time a shallow waterway winding through malarious...
- The European Merchant Bank (trading as EMBank) is a Lithuanian digital neo bank established in 2018. The bank focuses on Small and medium-sized enterprises...
- founder of banking-as-a-service provider OpenPayd, European Merchant Bank (EMBank), and the co-founder of Norsk Ideutvikling AS, the social networking service...
- Malta and serves as the Chairman of supervisory board of Lithuanian bank EMBank. Ekmel Çilingir completed his secondary education at 19 Mayıs High School...
- partially enough to provide a good idea of its structure. Above it is an embanking wall of irregular masonry, and below it some remains of Roman baths, including...
- local shippers in the successful public works project of dredging and embanking the Malmö harbour. It is for this work that he is remembered in Malmö...
- began to be effectively drained. The Act of Parliament permitting the embanking and straightening of the fenland Witham was dated 1762. A sluice, called...
- Reclamation Act 1872 35 & 36 Vict. c. l****iv 18 July 1872 An Act for embanking and reclaiming certain mud or slob lands in the county of Wexford. Ballymena...
- tend to overflow their banks. Much has been done to prevent this by embanking them, regaining arable land: the Rhine (between Bad Ragaz and Lake Constance)...
- County of Devon, to certain Persons therein named, for the Purpose of embanking and preferring the same from the Sea. National Debt Act 1802 (repealed)...