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Definition of Fascines
1. fascine [n] - See also: fascine
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fascines
Literary usage of Fascines
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Forestry Quarterly by New York State College of Forestry (1911)
"HOW fascines ARE MADE. BY SB DETWILER. The improvement of our rivers for navigation
affords an excellent, though very limited opportunity for forest ..."
2. A Treatise on Rivers and Canals: Relating to the Control and Improvement of by Leveson Francis Vernon-Harcourt (1882)
"fascines: Construction. Used in the form of Mattresses in Holland and in ...
fascines consist of bundles of sticks, or of brushwood, bound firmly together. ..."
3. A Military Dictionary: Or, Explaination of the Several Systems of Discipline by William Duane (1810)
"Let this second surface be sufficiently covered with earth and straw, to secure
the fascines, and to render the road solid and compact. ..."
4. The Improvement of Rivers: A Treatise on the Methods Employed for Improving by Benjamin Franklin Thomas, David Alexander Watt (1913)
"fascines and Mattresses.—Excellent results are frequently obtained by using
various forms of brush, poles, etc., in protecting banks. ..."
5. In the Matter of the Application of the United States of America for the by Ulric Lafontaine (1905)
"Under the specifications there is more brush, more fascines, more lineal feet of
fascines, and more labour in the second design than in the third. ..."
6. Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1865)
"fascines are used in the construction of temporary works ; for filling a ditch,
... Before a siege, the soldiers are employed in making fascines in great ..."
7. A Manual of Forestry by Sir William Schlich (1896)
"fascines. fascines are often used to support banks, a fascine being a bundle of
young stool-shoots of different species and dimensions. ..."
8. Across Widest Africa: An Account of the Country and People of Eastern by Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1907)
"Generally there were two huts opposite each other in an enclosure of fascines of
reeds and sticks with matting between. Their boats, for lack of wood, ..."
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