1. levee - Noun
2. levee - Verb
The act of rising.
A morning assembly or reception of visitors, -- in distinction from a soiree, or evening assembly; a matinee; hence, also, any general or somewhat miscellaneous gathering of guests, whether in the daytime or evening; as, the president's levee.
To attend the levee or levees of.
An embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along the Mississippi; sometimes, the steep bank of a river.
To keep within a channel by means of levees; as, to levee a river.
Source: Webster's dictionaryHurricane Katrina didn't just knock a few bricks from the fabric of a levee. More importantly, it knocked a few bricks also from the notion that America is a shining beacon of hope for a troubled world. It isn't. It's a house of straw. With no education to glue that straw together. Jeremy Clarkson
Most floods are caused by man, not weather; deforestation, levee construction, erosion, and overgrazing all result in the loss of ecosystem services. Paul Hawken
You probably have to have redundant levee systems with canals in between them, like the Dutch have, to make sure that incoming water is channeled off to areas where you deal with it rather than have it drown you. Billy Tauzin
I did grow up in New Orleans. I grew up right on the lake, right across the levee. Bryan Batt
A breach can be a sudden or gradual failure, caused either by surface erosion or by subsurface weakness in the levee. Source: Internet
Above all, those living or cultivating on the crest of a levee have easy access to water for irrigation and household use in a dry, hot country. Source: Internet