levee
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Is levee a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of levee?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (US) The steep bank of a river.Examples: "The purchaser of a riparious estate under the words "front to the levee," does not acquire the alluvion or batture, when there is land susceptible of separate ownership beyond the levee."
2. (US) The border of an irrigated field.
3. (US) A pier or other landing place on a river.
verb (English)
1. (US, transitive) To keep within a channel by means of levees.Examples: "to levee a river"
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) The act of rising; getting up, especially in the morning after rest.Examples: "c. 1763, Thomas Gray, letter to Mr. Nichols And look before you were up in the morning, though you were a punctual courtier at the sun's levee"; "The sturdy hind now attends the levee of his fellow-labourer the ox […]"
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To attend the levee or levees of.Examples: "He levees all the great."
Definition source: Wiktionary