The upper parts of revetments and the foundations of walls are protected against the action of shells, that falling steeply might act as mines to overturn them, by thick aprons of large stones.
The next advance from the hedge is the bank of earth, with the exterior made steep by revetments of sods or hurdle-work.
Revetments were enormously strengthened, and designed so that their weight resisted overturning.
These training walls are built of stone with flat revetments to protect them against ice.
By means of a series of training walls, by groynes thrown out from the banks, by revetments of the banks, and by dredging, all done with the view of narrowing the river, a minimum depth of 11 ft.
The use of gabions in revetments is illustrated in Fig.
The companies were housed in mined dugouts made by the enemy, and again evidence of the industry of the Germans was seen in the mined dugouts, armoured sentry boxes, substantial revetments and belts of wire entanglements.
The defences therefore consisted of sand-bag revetments held in position by wooden frames over which expanded metal had been spread.
So well anchored were the revetments that in spite of the continuous bombardments of the Somme Battle they were still in position.
In the case of the ordinary revetments of fortification.
Construction of revetments of different kinds employed in batteries.
Revetments of various kinds; case in which the slope of the ditch should be reveted; choice to be made of the different kinds of revetments.
Banks in earth; their profile; revetments to protect them; the wet slope; sort of remblai; precautions which exact a large remblai.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "revetments" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
