Commonly known as a revetment, the mini seawall would be made of concrete and rocks covered with vegetation. From Wordnik.com. [The Daily News - News] Reference
The last sentry in the forest was in the same kind of revetment as the pair had been. From Wordnik.com. [Alector's Choice]
Illegals vaulted over the revetment and began to run. From Wordnik.com. [Flash] Reference
The fire lit up three men crawling toward the revetment. From Wordnik.com. [The Disunited States of America] Reference
After that, get back to your revetment and protect Gunnar. From Wordnik.com. [The Order War]
The first image is a fuel truck in a revetment near Al-Kut. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 31, 2003] Reference
Breast walls are normally considered to be types of revetment. From Wordnik.com. [2.1 Retaining walls] Reference
This first image is a tank in a revetment north of An Nasiriya. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 31, 2003] Reference
A handful of illegals vaulted over the revetment and began to run. From Wordnik.com. [Flash] Reference
When we got back to the revetment we pulled in and the crew met us. From Wordnik.com. [THE DIARY OF Master Sergeant Ernest H. Barber] Reference
The revetment, the gilded outer frame, was deeply marked in places. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Madonna] Reference
Investigate the necessity of building revetment, toe or prop walls. From Wordnik.com. [1.1 Problems of slopes and their solutions] Reference
A revetment toe wall is protected by grasses planted on the slope above. From Wordnik.com. [2.1 Retaining walls] Reference
The force behind the makeshift revetment numbers less than a full squad. From Wordnik.com. [The Magic Engineer]
"Safer here than back there," Smitty said when they got to the revetment. From Wordnik.com. [The Disunited States of America] Reference
I took out one patrol to investigate a revetment and some plane wreckage. From Wordnik.com. [Into the Rising Sun] Reference
They went along until they got to the revetment where we'd tied up the boat. From Wordnik.com. [The Empress File]
Around these piers we also discovered concentrations of marble revetment slabs. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Sagalassos 2003 - Roman Baths Report 4] Reference
The niche's southeast corner still had some marble revetment attached to the walls. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Roman Baths Report 4] Reference
If the revetment slabs continue until the floor level, they may be as high as 1.30 m. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Roman Baths Report 6] Reference
The rear section had dropped, leaving the forward part as a near perfect stone revetment. From Wordnik.com. [Alector's Choice]
As for the wall revetment once again the Roman bath building was the main focus of research. From Wordnik.com. [Stone Studies « Interactive Dig Sagalassos – City in the Clouds] Reference
Bio-engineering techniques should be used in connection with revetment and toe walls as follows. From Wordnik.com. [2.1 Retaining walls] Reference
Some sort of crude revetment, but crude or not, it was good enough to stop lasers and hand weapons. From Wordnik.com. [Flash] Reference
That didn't count the others that delta company had taken down when they'd bolted the makeshift revetment. From Wordnik.com. [Flash] Reference
Clamp holes show that these piers were originally covered with marble revetment slabs set in a mortar layer. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Roman Baths Report 2] Reference
"Mother of light!" screamed a soldier from the revetment below, a trench above the one that had become a tomb. From Wordnik.com. [The Order War]
Only their upper part was exposed, but it was still covered with marble veneer, made of reused marble revetment. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Sagalassos 2003 - Roman Baths Report 6] Reference
The white Learjet 45 touched down in Marseille and taxied to a revetment area near the General Aviation building. From Wordnik.com. [Foreign Influence] Reference
Several kinds of breccias, granite, and red porphyry (a type of igneous rock) were used in the revetment of the walls. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Roman Baths Report 7] Reference
In this niche, nice rectangular marble revetment slabs in green-white cipollino from Euboia (Greece) were found in place. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Roman Baths Report 6] Reference
Most of it belonged to the marble wall revetment, which consisted both of flat marble crustae and of a sham architecture. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Apollo Klarios Sanctuary Report 3] Reference
We also recovered lots of metal clamps and hooks which were used to keep the revetment slabs in place, as well as many nails. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Roman Baths Report 5] Reference
Once again pottery, pieces of marble revetment slabs (crustae), as well as metal clamps and nails represent the most common finds. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Roman Baths Report 2] Reference
The green cipollino wall revetment slabs still covering the curved niche near the eastern extremity of the frigidarium's north wall. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Roman Baths Report 6] Reference
This layer also yielded lots of marble veneer; in a mere two days we retrieved ca. 50 boxes of marble, nearly half a ton of wall revetment. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Roman Baths Report 5] Reference
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