Definition of "embank" [em•bank]

• To confine, support, or protect with an embankment. (verb-transitive)

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• "But since the embank court has already said 10-2 that they're not going to give relief -- and there's nothing really new here -- I mean, it's conceivable that they could get the two judges that dissented and get a 2-1 decision."
• "But that would immediately be reversed by the entire court embank."
• "They can't really in good faith go to the circuit court, because there was a 10-2 embank decision against them."