The large and high motte carries a wall of flint rubble, built outside and thus revetting the earthen bank which formed its first defence.
From railhead this material, consisting of trench boards, rolls of barbed wire, revetting frames, hurdles and other heavy stuff had to be distributed to companies in the line.
During one of the enemy's midday bombardments a time-fuzed medium trench mortar shell fell on the parapet of our breastwork on the lip of Mauquissart crater, and lodged in the revetting hurdle at the side of the trench.
When time and material had become available for the revetting of its sides, all this was changed, and "Jacob's Ladder" lost much of its evil reputation.
There was a certain lack of revetting material, it is true.
There is nothing more important than the supports used to keep revetting in place.
With the other forms ofrevetting some secondary support is required.
The soil was sticky and would not leave the shovel, which added terribly to the work; for each man had literally to dig a shovel full, walk five or six yards and deposit it against the revetting frames.
While some went off to learn grenade throwing, a skilled science in those days when there was no Mills but only the "stick" grenades, others helped dig back lines of defence and learned the mysteries of revetting under the Engineers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "revetting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
