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Definition of Gabion

1. n. A hollow cylinder of wickerwork, like a basket without a bottom. Gabions are made of various sizes, and filled with earth in building fieldworks to shelter men from an enemy's fire.

Definition of Gabion

1. Noun. A cylindrical basket or cage of wicker which was filled with earth or stones and used in fortifications and other engineering work (a precursor to the sandbag). ¹

2. Noun. A woven wire mesh unit, sometimes rectangular, made from a continuous mesh panel and filled with stones sometimes coated with polyvinyl chloride. ¹

3. Noun. A porous metal cylinder filled with stones and used in a variety of civil engineering contexts, especially in the construction of retaining walls, the reinforcing of steep slopes, or in the prevention of erosion in river banks. ¹

4. Noun. A knickknack, objet d'art, curiosity, collectable. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Gabion

1. a type of basket [n -S] - See also: basket

Medical Definition of Gabion

1. 1. A hollow cylinder of wickerwork, like a basket without a bottom. Gabions are made of various sizes, and filled with earth in building fieldworks to shelter men from an enemy's fire. 2. An openwork frame, as of poles, filled with stones and sunk, to assist in forming a bar dyke, etc, as in harbor improvement. Origin: F, from It. Gabbione a large cage, gabion, from gabbia cage, L. Cavea. See Cage. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gabion

Literary usage of Gabion

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Manual of Military Field Engineering for the Use of Officers and Troops of by William Dorrance Beach, Edwin Alvin Root, Thomas Horace Slavens (1902)
"Wicker gabion Without the gabion Form. Where the form is not at hand, ... Three men should make a gabion, without the form, in an hour and a half to two ..."

2. A Military Dictionary: Or, Explaination of the Several Systems of Discipline by William Duane (1810)
"A 3 toot gabion ought to be made in half an hour Stuff. ... gabion. GAF FLES, the steel lever with which the ancients bent ..."

3. A Treatise on Field Fortification: Containing Instructions on the Methods of by Dennis Hart Mahan (1862)
"The gabion (Fig. 25) is a round basket of a cylindrical form, open at each end ... To form a gabion, a directing circle is made of two hoops, the difference ..."

4. A French-English Military Technical Dictionary by Cornélis De Witt Willcox (1899)
"gabion: i wattling) byO.Soni in exterior diameter; d'artillerie, (t'r. art. ... gabion 0.80m high pliant, collapsible gabion; de sape, sep gabion; roulant, ..."

5. The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain), George Long (1841)
"feet farther, and another gabion is set up in iu rear. adj*- cent to the ... The sapper then excavates as before, and having filled the second gabion, ..."

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