revetment

Converse of subject

• protect: The LCP is, from the outside, no more sophisticated than a caravan protected by an earth revetment.

Converse of object

• build: Each mound was encircled by a carefully built stone revetment.
• form: Boundary: consists of the aforementioned ditch, with a stone wall forming a revetment to its inner face.
• construct: Restoring damaged areas by constructing revetments and erosion barriers, filling, grading, reseeding and transplanting.
• include: These uses include revetment, ground stabilization and reinforcement, drainage and revegetation.
• have: There are larger enclosures to the north, possibly connected with the farm, with a small moated island which has a stone revetment.

Adjective modifier

• concrete: This is a large single story concrete structure covered in earth and grassed with concrete revetments around it.
• wooden: The older wooden revetment consists of posts fixed into the beach with wooden slats between.
• sloping: Marginal vegetation can be established on shelves constructed beneath vertical or steeply sloping revetments.
• vertical: A cutting to the north located a possible rampart strengthened by tipped stone with a vertical timber revetment.

Modifies a noun

• wall: Boundary: a stone revetment wall forms the boundary, up to 2m high, on the roadside to the east.
• work: Wattle hurdles for sheep fencing and garden use are available from hurdle makers, but are normally too expensive for bankside revetment work.
• system: Erosion by wave attack is combated by a wide range of revetment systems.

Noun used with modifier

• timber: A number of medieval timber revetments suggest the area contained a mass of shifting river channels.
• stone: Boundary: a stone revetment wall forms the boundary, up to 2m high, on the roadside to the east.
• rock: A rock revetment was constructed in 1992 in an attempt to address the basic cause of slope instability, i.e. basal wave erosion.
• earth: The LCP is, from the outside, no more sophisticated than a caravan protected by an earth revetment.
• bankside: Wattle hurdles for sheep fencing and garden use are available from hurdle makers, but are normally too expensive for bankside revetment work.
• river: Previously the earliest date was AD 52 from a river revetment.