remblai

Definitions

noun In fortification, the earth or materials used to form the whole mass of rampart and parapet. It may contain more than the déblai from the ditch.
noun In engineering, the mass of earth brought to form an embankment in the case of a railway or canal traversing a natural depression of surface.

noun (Fort. & Engin.) Earth or materials made into a bank after having been excavated.

French, from remblayer to fill up an excavation, to embank.

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The mass of the ruined city lies upon the left bank, where a high and artificial-looking remblai of earth masks an eastern influent, the

The Land of Midian 2003
This type of raised road or track can be seen in one or two parts of the battlefield (just above Hamel and near Pozières for instance), but the hollow or sunken road and the steep remblai or lynchet are everywhere.

The Old Front Line John Masefield 1922
The features are a lane, fifty or sixty yards in front of our front trench, and a remblai or lynchet fifty or sixty yards in front of the lane.

The Old Front Line John Masefield 1922
Then there is the lynchet or remblai, like a steep cliff, from three to twelve feet high, hardly to be noticed from above until the traveller is upon it.

The Old Front Line John Masefield 1922
A remblai, also topped with hawthorn, lies a little to the north of this road.

The Old Front Line John Masefield 1922
The mass of the ruined city lies upon the left bank, where a high and artificial-looking remblai of earth masks an eastern influent, the Wady el-Aslah (Athlah), or "of the Kali-plant."

The Land of Midian — Volume 2 Richard Francis Burton 1855