gabion

Some gabion manufacturers guarantee a structural consistency of 50 years.

The ball struck a gabion, breaking it apart in a spray of earth.

The basement levels of the museum face the sunken garden and gabion walls.

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In field warfare they are often log, sandbag or gabion type construction.

Other sections are constrained by rock filled gabion baskets.

They knew that the mesh, called gabion, had been used to hold back rocky hillsides all over the Alps.

Sapper straining grating and placed the heavy gabion against it.

In the Indian Army, it is given the name 'knife gabion'.

Since then, a gabion revetment has been constructed to secure the weakest point at the eastern end of the Head.

The gabion cages are composed of iron and filled with rocks unearthed during the construction process.

Cellular confinement, a modern form of gabion cages.

There is a granite picnic shelter and table at the Ridge (surrounded by a gabion walling).

Mattress: a form of gabion with relatively small height relative to the lateral dimensions; commonly very wide.

Sharpe leaned back on a wicker gabion, abandoned by a working party, and stared up. '

Sapper locked the brakes, and then lowered the heavy gabion into the flood before reversing back up the bank.

The men cheered him wildly, even though the first gabion was instantly submerged and only a whirlpool on the river's surface marked its position.

Another filled gabion lay ready.

It would carry away a rock-filled gabion as if it were the branch of a baobab tree.

Each of them carried on his head a basket of stone aggregate, which he dumped into the mouth of the waiting gabion.

As each gabion was filled, another team fitted the mesh lid and laced it closed with heavy eight-gauge wire.

A gabion wall is a retaining wall made of stacked stone-filled gabions tied together with wire.

The viewer begins their experience by walking down a concrete platform flanked on both sides with limestone-filled gabion baskets and indigenous shrubbery.

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Trapion: a form of gabion with a trapezoidal cross section, designed for stacking to give a face that is sloping rather than stepped.