enrockment

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If by any chance her forefoot should be thrust into one of the many gaps between the enrockment blocks, -- spaces from two to three feet wide, -- and her bow timbers thus take the shock, there was a living chance to save her.

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  1. A mass of large stones thrown into the water to protect the outer face of a dike or breakwater, or a shore subject to encroachment of the sea.

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  • If by any chance her forefoot should be thrust into one of the many gaps between the enrockment blocks, -- spaces from two to three feet wide, -- and her bow timbers thus take the shock, there was a living chance to save her. —  The Veiled Lady and Other Men and Women
 

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