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What does embankment mean?

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The aircraft hit the embankment short of the threshold, sliding up it, turning through 90-deg and coming to a stop.
Sea heath and sea lavender create a spectacular natural border to the embankment path.
The pair waded through waist-deep freezing water to reach a woman who had fallen down an embankment in Broadbent.
The injured man was carried on a stretcher by firefighters up a steep embankment to a waiting ambulance.
The new plan proposed an embankment like his original one, this time on the left bank of the Thames from Hungerford to London Bridge.
The six giant grey cattle thundered along the embankment, their nostrils jetting steam in the cold air of a Hungarian autumn morning.

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