levee

a formal reception of visitors or guests (as at a royal court)

a pier that provides a landing place on a river

an embankment that is built in order to prevent a river from overflowing

The act of rising.

An embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along the Mississippi; sometimes, the steep bank of a river.

To attend the levee or levees of.

To keep within a channel by means of levees; as, to levee a river.