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Definition of Riprapping
1. riprap [v] - See also: riprap
Lexicographical Neighbors of Riprapping
Literary usage of Riprapping
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Farmers' Handbook Containing Laws of Ohio Relating to Agriculture and of by Ohio (1901)
"[When riprapping to be done.] If it be found necessary by the court to protect
such levee from being washed away by high waters or freshets, ..."
2. The Trackman's Helper: A Book of Instruction for Track Foremen by Joseph Kindelan, Frederick Augustus Smith, F. R. Coates, Jerry Sullivan (1894)
"Where the width of the stream is ample, or where there is no reason for building
masonry or other walls, ordinary riprapping may be employed to protect the ..."
3. Annual Report by Massachusetts Harbor and Land Commission (1904)
"900 Removing wall and riprapping bank on easterly side of cut, . 1700 (68295
Supervision and contingent expenses, 10 per cent., . ..."
4. Battles and Leaders of the Civil War by Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buel (1887)
"The possibility of a hostile landing on the narrow strip of riprapping between
... The ledge of riprapping was little more than four feet below the sills of ..."
5. The American Geologist: A Monthly Journal of Geology and Allied Sciences by Newton Horace Winchell (1889)
"An immense quantity of stone was taken out by the railway company and used as
riprapping to protect the embankment from the wash of the river. ..."
6. Railroad Structures and Estimates by John Wilson Orrock (1909)
"riprapping. When required or ordered as protection against the action of water,
riprapping is laid or placed on embankments, or about foundations, ..."
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