levee

As a verb levee

is .

As a noun spetchel is

a levee or dike made from stones laid in horizontal rows with a bed of thin turf between each of them.

As nouns the difference between levee and stopbank

is that levee is an embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along the Mississippi while stopbank is levee, dyke.

As a verb levee

is to keep within a channel by means of levees.