Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A gabion of peculiar form, cylindrical and carefully made, solid and stiff, so as to roll evenly.
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Examples
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The chief commissary, now the Commissary-General of the Army, begged off, however, saying that there was nothing in engineering that he was good for unless he would do for a sap-roller.
Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger
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As soldiers require rations while working in the ditches as well as when marching and fighting, and as we would be sure to lose him if he was used as a sap-roller, I let him off.
Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger
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This brought forth a respectful protest from the enormously fat Chief Commissary, who said he could only be used as a sap-roller
Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray William Charles Henry Wood 1905
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The chief commissary, now the Commissary-General of the Army, begged off, however, saying that there was nothing in engineering that he was good for unless he would do for a sap-roller.
Chapter XXXVII 1885
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As soldiers require rations while working in the ditches as well as when marching and fighting, and as we would be sure to lose him if he was used as a sap-roller, I let him off.
Chapter XXXVII 1885
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The chief commissary, now the Commissary-General of the Army, begged off, however, saying that there was nothing in engineering that he was good for unless he would do for a sap-roller.
Personal Memoirs of U S Grant 01 Grant, Ulysses S 1885
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Upon this approach, because of its directness, the use of the sap-roller, or some equivalent for it, could never be given up until the ditch was gained.
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The chief commissary, now the Commissary-General of the Army, begged off, however, saying that there was nothing in engineering that he was good for unless he would do for a sap-roller.
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As soldiers require rations while working in the ditches as well as when marching and fighting, and as we would be sure to lose him if he was used as a sap-roller, I let him off.
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The chief commissary, now the Commissary-General of the Army, begged off, however, saying that there was nothing in engineering that he was good for unless he would do for a sap-roller.
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