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Revet

To face, as an embankment, with masonry, wood, or other material.

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Build 76% connected

To erect or construct, as an edifice or fabric of any kind; to form by uniting materials into a regular structure; to fabricate; to make; to raise.

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Construct 76% connected

To put together the constituent parts of (something) in their proper place and order; to build; to form; to make; as, to construct an edifice.

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Face 76% connected

The exterior form or appearance of anything; that part which presents itself to the view; especially, the front or upper part or surface; that which…

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Make 76% connected

A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.

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Affront verb · 78% connection

To front; to face in position; to meet or encounter face to face.

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Bowl noun · 78% connection

A ball of wood or other material used for rolling on a level surface in play; a ball of hard wood having one side heavier than the oth…

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Bulwark noun · 78% connection

an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes; "they stormed the ramparts of the city"; "they blew the trumpet and the wal…

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Bund noun · 78% connection

An embankment against inundation.

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Clinometer noun · 78% connection

An instrument for determining the dip of beds or strata, pr the slope of an embankment or cutting; a kind of plumb level.

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Coak noun · 78% connection

A kind of tenon connecting the face of a scarfed timber with the face of another timber, or a dowel or pin of hard wood or iron unitin…

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Confront verb · 78% connection

To put face to face; to cause to face or to meet; as, to confront one with the proofs of his wrong doing.

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Crest noun · 78% connection

The top line of a slope or embankment.

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Crevasse noun · 78% connection

A deep crevice or fissure, as in embankment; one of the clefts or fissure by which the mass of a glacier is divided.

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Dam noun · 78% connection

A barrier to prevent the flow of a liquid; esp., a bank of earth, or wall of any kind, as of masonry or wood, built across a water cou…

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Delph noun · 78% connection

The drain on the land side of a sea embankment.

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Dike noun · 78% connection

An embankment to prevent inundations; a levee.

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Earthwork noun · 78% connection

An embankment or construction made of earth.

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Facing noun · 78% connection

The finishing of any face of a wall with material different from that of which it is chiefly composed, or the coating or material so u…

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Feature noun · 78% connection

The make, cast, or appearance of the human face, and especially of any single part of the face; a lineament. (pl.) The face, the count…

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Fill adjective · 78% connection

To make an embankment in, or raise the level of (a low place), with earth or gravel.

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Filling noun · 78% connection

That which is used to fill a cavity or any empty space, or to supply a deficiency; as, filling for a cavity in a tooth, a depression i…

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Footing noun · 78% connection

The thickened or sloping portion of a wall, or of an embankment at its foot.

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