Fascine definitions

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A cylindrical bundle of sticks bound together for use in construction, as of fortresses, earthworks, sea walls, or dams.
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A bundle of sticks bound together, formerly used to fill ditches, strengthen the sides of trenches, etc.
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(fortification) A cylindrical bundle of small sticks of wood, bound together, used in raising batteries, filling ditches, strengthening ramparts, and making parapets; also in revetments for river banks, and in mats for dams, jetties, etc.
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Origin of fascine

From the French fascine, from the Latin fascīna (“bundle of sticks”).

Sentence Examples

  • The simplest form of weir is a solid, watertight dam of firm earthwork or rubble stone, faced with stone pitching, with cribs filled with rubble, with fascine mattresses weighted with stone, or with masonry, and protected from undermining by sheet piling or one or more rows of well foundations.

  • Another site in Holderness, Yorkshire, examined by Mr Boynton in 1881, yielded evidence of fascine construction, with suggestions of occupation in the latter part of the Bronze Age.

  • fascine training walls as he recommended and was the only part of his 1835 recommendations currently being pursued.

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