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Definition of Revetement
1. Noun. A facing (usually masonry) that supports an embankment.
Group relationships: Embankment
Generic synonyms: Cladding, Facing
Derivative terms: Revet, Revet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Revetement
Literary usage of Revetement
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Camp and March: With which is Connected the Construction by Henry Dearborn Grafton (1854)
"(A revetement is a facing of the above, or other material, to sustain an ...
For a sod revetement, the sods are cut with short, thick grass upon them ..."
2. The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy by Royal Irish Academy (1803)
"... this a military gentleman of our party called its revetement, ... we traced
the revetement back to the Dyke, then along it to the weft ward, ..."
3. The Mechanical Principles of Engineering and Architecture by Henry Moseley (1856)
"9 COS. a, ^ ' By a comparison of this equation with equation (427) it is apparent,
that the pressure of a mass of earth upon a revetement wall, ..."
4. Copies of Papers Relative to the Restoration of the King of Tanjore, the (1777)
"... the great town as high as I could conveniently, without having the revetement
... and without the two extremities I meant to cutaway the old revetement, ..."
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