revetment
revetment
Definition
re·vet·ment (-mənt)
noun
- a facing of stone, cement, sandbags, etc., as to protect a wall or a bank of earth
- retaining wall
- an embankment or wall as of sandbags or earth, constructed to protect against strafing, shell fragments, etc.
revetment
Usage Examples
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.
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