retaining wall

Definitions

1. defense
2. Any of several structures used to restrain a vertical-faced mass of earth.
3. bumper
4. back
5. third-person singular present indicative

Equivalents

Examples

“Masonry flying arches strutting the retaining walls in Chorley cutting, Manchester-Blackpool line, L.M.S.R.”

“The viaduct is joined to the embankment by retaining walls, which have⟳ been strengthened since they were constructed by the addition of stay⟳ bolts extending right through the embankment and fastened outside each retaining wall.”

“In order⟳ to accommodate the new platform 4 and the reversibly signalled slow line, a deep cutting had to be cut⟳ back and held up in places with a concrete retaining wall.”

“Biddle even notes how Brunel, after observing how one retaining wall had part-collapsed during the construction of one of the GWR's Bristol tunnels during heavy rains, "decided to leave⟳ it like⟳ that and planted it with ivy to represent⟳ a ruined medieval gateway".”

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