1) Civil engineering term 2) Pier support
Found on
https://www.crosswordclues.com/clue/gabion
A gabion (from Italian gabbione meaning `big cage`; from Italian gabbia and Latin cavea meaning `cage`) is a cage, cylinder, or box filled with rocks, concrete, or sometimes sand and soil for use in civil engineering, road building, and military applications. For erosion control, caged riprap is used. For dams or in foundation construction, cy...
Found on
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabion
wicker or wire basket of earth or rock
Found on
http://phrontistery.info/g.html
• (n.) An openwork frame, as of poles, filled with stones and sunk, to assist in forming a bar dyke, etc., as in harbor improvement. • (n.) A hollow cylinder of wickerwork, like a basket without a bottom. Gabions are made of various sizes, and filled with earth in building fieldworks to shelter men from an enemy`s fire.Gabion: words in th...
Found on
http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/gabion/
wicker basket filled with earth and/or stone, used in fortifications
Found on
http://www.castles-of-britain.com/glossary.htm
an oblong basket in wire or interlaced metal strips filled with earth stone etc which can be used for reinforcement of anything from river banks to foundations.
Found on
http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20935
1. A hollow cylinder of wickerwork, like a basket without a bottom. Gabions are made of various sizes, and filled with earth in building fieldworks to shelter men from an enemy's fire. ... 2. <physics> An openwork frame, as of poles, filled with stones and sunk, to assist in forming a bar dyke, etc, as in harbor improvement. ... Origin: F, fr...
Found on
http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20973
A wire basket or cage that is filled with gravel and generally used to stabilize stream banks and improve degraded aquatic habitat.
Found on
http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/21804
Ga'bi·on noun [ French, from Italian
gabbione a large cage, gabion, from
gabbia cage, Latin
cavea . See
Cage .]
1. (Fort.) A hollow cylinder of wickerwork, like a basket without a bottom. Gabions are made of various sizes, and filled with earth in building fi...
Found on
http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/G/1
Dirt-filled cane basket used for defence works.
Found on
http://www.napoleonguide.com/glossary.htm
A gabion was an early form of sandbag, it was a wickerwork basket of cylindrical form but without a bottom and about 50cm in diameter and 84cm tall (20 inches diameter, 33 inches tall). In a siege, when forming a trench a row of gabions was placed on the outside nearest the fortress and filled with earth as it was thrown from the trench, so as to f...
Found on
http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/browse/FG.HTM
bottomless basket of earth used in fortifications
Found on
http://www.tudorrevels.co.uk/glossary.php
gabion 1. A cylindrical metal container filled with earth and stones, used in the construction and rerouting of waterways and in flood control. 2. A hollow cylinder of wickerwork, like a basket without a bottom. Gabions are made of various sizes, and filled with earth in building fieldworks to shelter men from an enemy's fire. 3. An openwork fram...
Found on
http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/info/view_unit/3591/3
(1) Steel wire-mesh basket to hold stones or crushed rock to protect a BANK or bottom from EROSION. (2) (SMP) Structures composed of masses of ROCKS, rubble or masonry held tightly together usually by wire mesh so as to form blocks or walls. Sometimes used on heavy erosion areas to retard wave action or as a foundation for BREAKWATERS or JETTIES.
Found on
https://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20127
A cylindrical wicker basket filled with earth and stones, used in building fortifications.
Found on
https://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/23412
No exact match found.
