embayment

noun
/ɪmˈbeɪmənt/

Etymology

From em- + bay + -ment.

Definitions

  1. A bay. (the water)

    • The path climbed along a wall of purple sandstone above an embayment and in the sunlit shadows below him he could see the long cataphracted forms of gars lying in a kind of electric repose among the reeds.
  2. The shoreline of a bay, an indentation in a shoreline. (the land, not the water)

  3. A topographical feature that used to be a bay, like the Mississippi embayment.

  4. + 1 more definition
    1. The process by which a bay is formed.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA