Lexicographical Neighbors of Revetting
Literary usage of Revetting
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 H. Slavens (1907)
"Revetting Materials and Revetments. 113.—A Revetment is a facing used to hold up
an embankment ... Revetting Materials. The revetments most commonly used in ..."
2. Manual of Military Field Engineering for the Use of Officers and Troops of by William Dorrance Beach, Edwin Alvin Root, Thomas Horace Slavens (1902)
"Revetting Materials and Revetments. 113.-A Revetment is a facing used to hold up
an embankment at a steeper slope than it would assume naturally. 114. ..."
3. Official Report to the United States Engineer Department, of the Siege and by Quincey Adams Gillmore (1862)
"This style of revetting (ie, without the mud) was used on the breast height of
the Beach Battery at Hilton Head, young pines or pine ..."
4. Technological Dictionary: English-Spanish and Spanish-English of Words and by Néstor Ponce de León (1920)
"counter arched revetting. — enlucido, facing of a wall. — Je ¡л escarpa de un
foso, scarp revetment. — exterior de la muralla (fort.) chemise. ..."
5. Engineer and Artillery Operations Against the Defences of Charleston Harbor by Quincy Adams Gillmore (1865)
"Sand bag revetting requires less anchoring to make it stand than any other.
Of the revetting herein described, only that of the heavy guns was anchored by ..."
6. Engineer and Artillery Operations Against the Defences of Charleston Harbor by Quincy Adams Gillmore (1865)
"Sand ba^ revetting requires less anchoring to make it stand than any other.
Of the revetting herein described, only that of the heavy guns was anchored by ..."
7. Manual of Military Field Engineering for the Use of Officers and Troops of by William Dorrance Beach, Edwin Alvin Root, Thomas Horace Slavens (1897)
"Revetting Materials. The revetments most commonly used in field engineering are
made either of brushwood in the rough, fascines, gabions, hurdles, planks, ..."
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