revetment

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revetment englannista suomeksi

  1. suojamuuri

  2. kivetys

  1. Substantiivi

revetment englanniksi

  1. A layer of stone, concrete, or other hard material supporting the side of an embankment.

  2. (quote-book)|chapter=The Bridge-Builders|author=Rudyard Kipling|chapterurl=https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2163/pg2163-images.html|passage=Findlayson, C. E., sat in his trolley on a construction line that ran along one of the main revetments—the huge stone-faced banks that flared away north and south for three miles on either side of the river and permitted himself to think of the end.

  3. (quote-journal)

  4. An ornamental facing, as on a common masonry wall, of marble, face brick, tiles, etc.

  5. An armoured building that provides protection against bombs.