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embayment definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: an indentation of a shoreline larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf [syn: bay, embayment]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1815 1. formation of a bay 2. a bay or a conformation resembling a bay

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Embayment Em*bay"ment, n. A bay. [R.] The embayment which is terminated by the land of North Berwick. --Sir W. Scott.