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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In fortification, a work formed chiefly of gabions, especially the gabions placed to cover guns from an enfilading fire.
  • noun Any hydraulic structure composed in whole or part of gabions sunk in a stream to control the current.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Fort.) A traverse made with gabions between guns or on their flanks, protecting them from enfilading fire.
  • noun A structure of gabions sunk in lines, as a core for a sand bar in harbor improvements.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A construction of gabions

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