'Embank' definitions:

Definition of 'embank'

From: WordNet
verb
Enclose with banks, as for support or protection; "The river was embanked with a dyke"

Definition of 'Embank'

From: GCIDE
  • 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. [1913 Webster]