Слово "embankment". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

We climbed up the embankment.

Merry little country houses came bounding up to the embankment from areas of sparse woodland and clumps of trees.

From time to time a snuffling locomotive would back its way along the walled-off embankment, above the houses. For a second the roof-tops were lit by the blaze from the firebox. Now and then empty goods trains went by, and from time to time detonators could be heard exploding.

And while Niall sat on the floor of Freada’s drawing room in Foley Street eating scrambled eggs with a bent fork, and Maria sat at a corner table at the Savoy overlooking the Embankment and eating oysters à la Baltimore, Celia sat alone in the dining room at St. John’s Wood eating prunes and custard and waiting for the telephone to ring.

I knew it that same day, an hour later, when, without having noticed the city, we found ourselves by the Kremlin wall on the embankment.

From time to time a snuffling locomotive would back its way along the walled-off embankment, above the houses. For a second the roof-tops were lit by the blaze from the firebox. Now and then empty goods trains went by, and from time to time detonators could be heard exploding.