6 letters · 14 points in Scrabble
verb enclose with banks, as for support or protection
originEtymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Italic *en Proto-Italic *en- Latin in- Old French en-bor. Middle English en- English en- English bank English embank From en- + bank.
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