fascine , auch: Dutch mattress

Metal pipes in the center of the fascine allowed water to flow through.

They could only claw the outside of the fascine.

Military fascine bridges were used on a regular basis by the Romans to cross obstacles.

In fact, the Spanish Army called its fascine knives machetes.

In American English a billhook may sometimes be referred to as a "fascine knife".

He is also credited with inventing the fascine which allowed tanks to cross deep ditches.

Standard tanks were fitted as fascine carriers.

Although the Spanish Army called its fascine knives machetes, they bore little resemblance to the common cutting tool.

There were at least forty autochthones behind the fascine, protected by the cylinder's bulk as they pushed it toward the vessel.

The fascine knife is a somewhat similar tool/weapon used by European armies throughout the late 18th to early 20th centuries.

A burst fascine there shifted the course of the Yellow River north towards modern Tianjin in 1048.

The fascine was subsequently accepted into service and used successfully in a number of operational and non operational roles.

The fascine knife was a side arm / tool issued to 17th to 19th century light infantry and artillery.

The Buinites had rolled a mass of brush into a fascine four meters in diameter and twenty meters across.

A number of warriors were pushing what Garric first thought was a fascine, a roll of brushwood to fill a gully.

Veils of dirty smoke swathed the fascine, but the autochthones protected behind it continued to advance the cylinder unhindered.

The Buinite fascine staggered under the impact of four rocket shells from the Racontid's launcher.

In 1866/7, a fascine dam was constructed between the Bordelum sluice and Hamburger Hallig.

He hoped that the flames would prevent fresh autochthones from replacing the team pushing the fascine, as would happen if he'd used normal antipersonnel bomblets.

Over time, local governments - both Prussian and (after 1945) Polish - tried to save the temple with fascine and concrete blocks, but all attempts were unsuccessful.

The front of the AVRE was modified by the addition of a tilting cradle above the drivers compartment to take the fascine.

The short sword would not have been a practical weapon for combat without a shield, but served as a fascine knife or a machete to clear fields for the guns.

Fort Dobbs was commissioned as a small fascine fort but was never fully completed leaving the Topsail inlet undefended during the American Revolution.

Et ça fascine tous ceux qui jettent un oil dans la mallette.

The AD 1048 Yellow River flood was a natural disaster along the Yellow River in China caused by the failure of a fascine at Shanghu.