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Definition of Revetments
1. revetment [n] - See also: revetment
Lexicographical Neighbors of Revetments
Literary usage of Revetments
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Elements of Field Fortifications: For the Use of the Cadets of the by Junius Brutus Wheeler (1882)
"Hurdle revetments.—Hurdle revetments are frequently used in field works. ...
Fascines, gabions, and hurdles are used for revetments when timber is scarce, ..."
2. The Elements of Field Fortifications, for the Use of the Cadets of the by Junius Brutus Wheeler (1898)
"Hurdle revetments. — Hurdle revetments are frequently used in field works. ...
Fascines, gabions, and hurdles are used for revetments when timber is scarce, ..."
3. The Propylaia to the Athenian Akropolis: The Classical Building by William Bell Dinsmoor (2004)
"CLASSICAL DOORWAY revetments ... Greek revetments. long since disappeared.
that initially framed the door openings and covered their rough ..."
4. Military Preparedness and the Engineer by Ernest Franklin Robinson (1916)
"revetments. The interior slope must nearly always be revetted. These revetments
are of many varied types. For more deliberate works, gabions, ..."
5. Elements of Trench Warfare: Bayonet Training by William Henry Waldron (1917)
"Some revetments also increase the tenacity of slopes and diminish the injury by
fire. The upper parts of revetments that may be struck by projectiles which ..."
6. Elements of Trench Warfare: Bayonet Training by William Henry Waldron (1917)
"Some revetments also increase the tenacity of slopes and diminish the injury by
fire. The upper parts of revetments that may be struck by projectiles which ..."
7. A Text-book on Field Fortification by Gustave Joseph Fiebeger (1900)
"revetments.—A revetment is any covering placed upon a slope of earth, to enable the
... The principal uses of revetments are to increase the amount of ..."
8. Manual of Military Field Engineering for the Use of Officers and Troops of by William Dorrance Beach, Edwin Alvin Root, Thomas Horace Slavens (1902)
"The revetments most commonly used in field engineering are made either of brushwood
in the rough, fascines, gabions, hurdles, planks, timber, sods, ..."
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