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- noun Plural form of
gabion .
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Examples
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Rock cribs, called gabions, built to hold storm water runoff from the bluff, will be dismantled.
News 2008
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Based on the medieval defense system of gabions - wicker baskets crammed with stones - Mr. Heselden designed the Bastion, a collapsible wire box lined with fabric and filled with aggregate dirt, sand and rocks to form a makeshift wall.
Segway company owner Jimi Heselden dies at 62 T. Rees Shapiro 2010
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As a fortification concept, Concertainers are a revival of R enaissance gabions, wicker baskets filled with earth and stacked to form walls.
Owner of Segway Company Dies in Accident Stephen Miller 2010
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The already existing fragments of the reconstruction of the original house became the starting point of the project: the set-in concrete slab with an out-placed exterior staircase, the wall by the entrance gateway and the parking lanes limited by the gabions.
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Rivals will no doubt emerge and Heselden's absence may see less nimble management and slow the constant updating of the gabions which were his speciality, along with an eye for new, clever gizmos such as he saw in the Segway vehicle.
A life lesson from the late, great Jimi Heselden Martin Wainwright 2010
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Based on the medieval defense system of gabions - wicker baskets crammed with stones - Mr. Heselden designed the Bastion, a collapsible wire box lined with fabric and filled with aggregate dirt, sand and rocks to form a makeshift wall.
Millionaire owner of Segway, philanthropist T. Rees Shapiro 2010
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The walls are made of gabions, or stone filled cages of steel wire.
Archive 2009-04-01 lavardera 2009
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The walls are made of gabions, or stone filled cages of steel wire.
architecture office, ho chi minh city lavardera 2009
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Attempts have been made to stabilize shorelines in the Seychelles by the installation of groynes, and in Mauritius by the use of rock-filled wire gabions.
Western Indian Ocean Islands and coastal and marine environments 2008
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You are given a tiny speck of an island and there waiting for you is a set of groynes, sea walls, revetments, rip raps, gabions, breakers and a multi-billion dollar levee system.
Archive 2006-07-01 2006
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