vbl. sb. [f. as prec. + -ING2.] The action or process of enclosing or protecting by banks.
1662. Dugdale (title), The History of Imbanking and Drayning of divers Fenns and Marshes.
1856. Olmsted, Slave States, 467. This embanking has been going on.
1864. H. Spencer, Illustr. Univ. Progr., 54. Cuttings, embankings, tunnellings.
