Crossword clues for levee
levee
- Water-level regulator
- Sea wall's kin
- Riverbank structure
- Protective river embankment
- Protective bank
- Mississippi River feature
- Mississippi bank
- It rhymes with "Chevy" in a classic song
- If it breaks, things get wet
- Flooding preventer
- Flood-preventing barrier
- Flood-control barrier
- Flood prevention barrier
- Flood inhibitor
- Flood fighter
- Flood defense
- Embankment designed to prevent flooding
- Earthen dike
- Chevy's destination, in "American Pie"
- Big Easy protector
- Barrier along a bank
- Bank for a rainy day?
- Bad place for a breach
- "Robert E. Lee" waiting spot
- "American Pie" embankment
- "American Pie" destination
- Zep "Mean old ___ taught me to weep and moan"
- Where McLean drove the Chevy
- Where Don McLean drove his Chevy
- What "broke" for Zeppelin?
- What "broke" for Zeppelin
- Water bank
- Wall of sandbags, maybe
- Wall near a bed
- Waiting place of song
- Type of embankment to which the Chevy was driven, in "American Pie"
- Surge protector of a sort
- Structure with high-water marks
- Structure protecting a city from floods
- Structure destroyed by Katrina
- Sea wall relative
- Robert E. Lee waiting spot
- Riverside structure
- Riverside embankment
- Riverbank flood blocker
- River's flood barrier
- River's border, sometimes
- River-flood preventer
- River-flood barrier
- River landing place
- New Orleans structure
- New Orleans feature
- New Orleans embankment
- Man-made embankment
- Man-made bank
- Led Zeppelin tune, "When the ___ Breaks"
- Led Zep "When the ___ Breaks"
- Led Zep "When the ___ breaks, mama, you got to move"
- Kind of embankment
- It's dry in "American Pie"
- It was dry in "American Pie"
- It provides bank security?
- It keeps the river out of town
- Floodplain feature
- Flood-protection embankment
- Flood-preventing structure
- Flood zone sight
- Flood prevention embankment
- Flood preventative
- Embankment to ward off floods
- Embankment that protects against floods
- Embankment that prevents rivers from overflowing
- Don McLean drove his Chevy here
- Delta dike
- Current inhibitor
- Construction beside some banks
- Common lowland sight
- Coastal structure
- Coastal safety measure
- Chevy's "American Pie" destination
- Chevy destination, in "American Pie"
- Bank security option?
- Bank investment?
- Bank insurance?
- Bank built for a rainy day
- Artificial embankment
- Anti-flooding embankment
- Anti-flood barrier
- "When the ___ breaks I'll have no place to stay"
- "Drove my Chevy to the __": "American Pie" lyric
- "Drove my Chevy to the ___"
- "Drove my Chevy to the ___ ..." ("American Pie" lyric)
- "Drove my Chevy to the ___ ..."
- Sandbags, maybe
- Flood protection
- Army Corps of Engineers construction
- Flood embankment
- River embankment
- Flood control embankment
- "Drove my Chevy to the ___..." (1972 lyric)
- Waiting area for the Robert E. Lee
- Bank manager?
- Flood protector
- It may get high marks
- A bank may have one
- Bank that may get in trouble?
- Embankment down by the riverside
- Sandbag stack, sometimes
- Flood insurance of sorts
- River barrier
- Bank that may be created by the government
- Sight along the Mississippi
- "When the ___ Breaks" (old blues song)
- It holds water
- Flood preventer
- Flood stopper
- Result of some sandbagging
- Spillover stopper
- Bank security feature?
- New Orleans sight
- Bank support?
- Corps of Engineers project
- Flood barrier
- Bad thing to be breached
- Surge protector?
- Breaking point?
- Bank to rely on
- A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea
- Regal reception
- White House reception
- Dike's kin
- Quay on a river
- Reception
- Flood controller
- Sight at New Orleans
- " . . . waiting on the ___"
- King's reception
- River-bank landing
- Aid in flood control
- Where to await the Robert E. Lee
- River quay
- Pier
- Morning reception
- Formal reception
- President's reception
- Fashionable party
- Monarch's reception
- Quay for the Robert E. Lee
- Royal reception
- Mississippi River sight
- Sight on the Mississippi
- Mississippi sight
- Presidential reception
- General keeping odd characters in view from riverside embankment
- Gathering at Embankment
- Quay providing shelter around mid-section of Severn
- Flood bank; reception
- River blocker
- Water barrier
- Water holder-backer
- It'll hold water
- Water container?
- Water container
- Protective embankment on a river
- Flood control structure
- Flood wall
- Flood insurance?
- Flood foiler
- Bank that deters flooding
- Mississippi restraint
- Place for Don McLean's Chevy
- New Orleans protector
- Water board?
- Flood zone structure
- Flood guard
- Flood blocker
- Anti-flood structure
- Raised river bank
- Mississippi feature
- Flood prevention measure
- Flood deterrent
- Bank protection
- Bank construction
- Where to wait for the Robert E. Lee
- What Don McLean drove his Chevy to
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Levee \Lev"ee\, n. [F. lev['e]e, fr. lever to raise. See Lever, and cf. Levy.] An embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along the Mississippi; sometimes, the steep bank of a river. [U. S.]
Levee \Lev"ee\, v. t. To attend the levee or levees of.
He levees all the great.
--Young.
Levee \Lev"ee\ (l[e^]v"[-e]; often l[e^]v*[=e]" in U. S.), n. [F. lever, fr. lever to raise, se lever to rise. See Lever, n.]
The act of rising. `` The sun's levee.''
--Gray.-
A morning assembly or reception of visitors, -- in distinction from a soir['e]e, or evening assembly; a matin['e]e; hence, also, any general or somewhat miscellaneous gathering of guests, whether in the daytime or evening; as, the president's levee.
Note: In England a ceremonious day reception, when attended by both ladies and gentlemen, is called a drawing-room.
Levee \Lev"ee\, v. t. To keep within a channel by means of levees; as, to levee a river. [U. S.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1719, "natural or artificial embankment to prevent overflow of a river," from New Orleans French levée "raising, lifting; embankment," from French, originally fem. past participle of lever "to raise," from Latin levare "to raise" (see lever).
"morning assembly held by a prince or king (upon rising from bed)," 1670s, from French lever "a raising," noun use of verb meaning "to raise" (see levee (n.1)).
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 An embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along the Mississippi. 2 (context US English) The steep bank of a river, or border of an irrigated field. 3 (context US English) A pier or other landing place on a river. vb. (context US transitive English) To keep within a channel by means of levees. Etymology 2
n. 1 (context obsolete English) The act of rising; getting up, especially in the morning after rest. 2 A reception of visitors held after getting up. 3 A formal reception, especially one given by royalty or other leaders. vb. (context transitive English) To attend the levee or levees of.
WordNet
Wikipedia
A levee, levée (; ), dike, dyke, embankment, floodbank or stopbank is an elongated naturally occurring ridge or artificially constructed fill or wall, which regulates water levels. It is usually earthen and often parallel to the course of a river in its floodplain or along low-lying coastlines.
The levée is a New Year's Day social event hosted by the Governor General of Canada, the lieutenant governors, military establishments, municipalities and other institutions.
The levée (from the French word lever, meaning "getting up" or "rising") has traditionally been a daily moment of intimacy and accessibility to a monarch or leader. It started out as a royal custom, but in America, it later came to refer to a reception by the King’s representatives and, even later, by the president.
A levee is a type of riverbank flood control system.
Levee or Levée may also refer to: A ridge or bank formed by deposits of alluvium left behind by the periodic flooding of rivers.
Levee was a Kentucky thoroughbred foaled in 1953. She was an accomplished stakes winner and the dam of the champion race mare Shuvee.
Usage examples of "levee".
In another proclamation Lord Ellenborough announced that all the Affghans then in the power of the British government should be permitted to return to their own country, and that the Affghan chiefs who were thus released, were, before they passed the Sutlej, to present themselves at the durbar, or levee, of the governor-general in his camp at Ferozepore.
Le cri des grillons dechirait le grand silence de la nuit, et la lune levee au-dessus des arbres argentait les allees du parc desert.
After Macore and Bly went ashore, the others grew restless, with the bright lights and noise of a massive and living cosmopolitan city crisscrossed with a network of canals and levees.
Macore and Bly went ashore, the others grew restless, with the bright lights and noise of a massive and living cosmopolitan city crisscrossed with a network of canals and levees.
As they chugged steadily upstream, the signs of the city gradually faded from view and pilar saw levee banks and the cotton, cane, and rice fields beyond.
And because he was carrying the lantern, knowing Esteban and probably Cornwallis at least would still be stirring in the house, he made his way to and from the bluff the long way around, through the cane-rows downstream from the house and up the batture, with the levee between the bobbing light and the windows.
He strained to hear what was happening, but there was too much noise from the rush and surge of the wind in the snags of the batture, in the trees beyond the levee, in the hammering air itself.
And the longer he remained, the greater the chances of someone either coming over the top of the levee again, or coming down the batture from upriver, drawn by rumor of the rebellion.
Balis watched Levee move and shift as the Montagne Sergeant walked the rope vicariously with the Great Tara.
It was supernatural, flying at sixty miles an hour through the low Louisiana landscape, the levee always concealing the Mississippi, the sky frequently completely overlaced with green.
As well as these there was of course the brilliant spectrum of officers - the particoloured Scots were particularly admired - people from the various ministries in their comparatively subfusc court dress, and civilians of all sorts, the levee being a wonderful place for discreet contacts, for the gathering of information, and for learning just how influence and favour waxed or waned.
Flooding, siltation, breaks in the natural levees, marshes and ox-bow lakes are common.
The lands are flooded by the unseasonable rains and by the Dark, who have broken the levees on the rivers.
Suddenly, the current of the Jamuna whimsically pushed the tree closer to the levee.
Revolution, Adams received a delegation of them in the Levee Room wearing a dress uniform and sword.