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Meanings of levee in английском
An artificial wall, embankment, ridge, or mound, usually of earth or rock fill, built around a relatively flat, low-lying area to protect it from flooding.
Synonyms
Examples for "dyke"
Examples for "dyke"
1
The Makololo guided the canoes admirably through the opening in the dyke.
2
No time was lost in breaking through the dyke in several places.
3
The flood-battered Changkai dyke near Fuzhou suffered a fresh breach on Wednesday.
4
I read in the paper that you're some sort of fucking dyke.
5
On either side of the dyke was the water, black and silent.
Usage of levee in английском
1
And it better lead where you say, back to the levee road.
2
She knew what it was; the Mississippi had broken through the levee.
3
They decided that the levee board would issue bonds to pay them.
4
The only protection to the city from the river is the levee.
5
From Cairo south, every levee board was operating on a twenty-four-hour basis.
6
But wind and wave action was pushing water over the canal levee.
7
The levee was deserted save for the negroes and the river men.
8
On the levee it varied from six to thirty inches in depth.
9
On May 12 miles of the Bayou des Glaises levee simply crumbled.
10
After the storm, studies found the levee system had been poorly constructed.
11
A rising Mississippi presses against a levee with immense and increasing weight.
12
Gangs of men were busy working the north levee in Helena, Arkansas.
13
Only ten earth-moving levee machines were available for 800 miles of levees.
14
It had gone down nearly six inches, and the levee had held.
15
Facebook Twitter Pinterest A levee during the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927.
16
The river was overflowing the levee along a front of several miles.
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Levee across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common