Crossword-Solution: GABION
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Gabion | 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 | n. | An openwork frame, as of poles, filled with stones and sunk, to assist in forming a bar dyke, etc., as in harbor improvement. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| GABION | anagram | BAGNIO |
We have 3 clues for the answer “GABION”
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| Pier support | 3 answers |
| fish basket | 15 answers |
| BASKET ___ | 38 answers |
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Sentences with GABION (5)
The _gabion_ is a cylindrical basket of twigs, about two feet in diameter, and some three feet in length, and without a bottom.
The sap-roller being placed along the line of the trench so as to cover the sapper in front, who is armed with a musket-proof headpiece and cuirass, this sapper commences the sap by placing a gabion on the line of the proposed trench and fills it with earth, working on his hands and knees.
Having filled the first gabion, he pushes forward the sap-roller and places a second one next the first, stopping the open joint between the two with a stop-fagot.
Small springs may be dug out and each lined with a gabion, or a barrel or box with both ends removed, or with stones, the space between the lining and the earth being filled with puddled clay.
One night I was in charge of a couple of guns in a rather dangerous position near the Redan, and after repairing damages under fire my lads had contrived to patch up a pretty secure shelter with sand-bag and gabion, ready for knocking down next day, but it kept off the rain, and where we huddled together there was no mud under our feet, though it was inches deep in the trench.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1994).