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revetment

NOUN
  1. a barrier against explosives
  2. a facing (usually masonry) that supports an embankment

How To Use revetment In A Sentence

  • Stacking large slabs on one another against a spine of uprights within a revetment wall, seems a very effective way to create an illusion of a well built and solid cairn.
  • Excavations between 1963 and 1965 demonstrated that the ramparts were composed of chalk rubble with timber revetments.
  • Eastwood Park remained a significant achievement for them, although its revetment wall meant that the area was not meant as beachfront land.
  • I managed to get five - and also set fires in a fuel storage and ammunition storage revetment.
  • The crew chiefs unplugged and trotted over to the next bomber waiting in the adjacent revetment. CHAINS OF COMMAND
  • The $50 million to $100 million projection includes some kind of revetment project, or something to keep the sea from reclaiming the roadway in case of a smaller-scale storm. The Facts: News
  • Harbour facilities, such as timber quays, jetties and revetments were recorded at many of the ports.
  • Many embankments, timber revetments and masonry river walls from the 10th to the 15th centuries were recovered, and tonnes of artefacts retrieved.
  • Arriving home, I taxied in and shut down in my revetment.
  • Finally, 2.0 miles of existing rock revetments would be demolished on Tybee and 2.9 miles would be removed on Jekyll.
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