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🌲 A bundle of sticks 🌲 To reinforce with sticks
to fascine

to fascine

9.9
To put bundles of sticks into a ditch or along a bank to make it stronger
  • verb
  • /fæˈsiːn/
  • Archaic
translation icon : fascinar
  • To stabilize the muddy path, workers fascined it with bundles of brushwood.

Examples

  • Soldiers worked quickly to fascine the ditch before the enemy arrived.

  • The workers fascined the bank to prevent erosion.

  • The engineers decided to fascine the riverbank to prevent erosion during the rainy season.

  • They will fascine the ditch with bundles of brushwood.

  • The engineers decided to fascine the riverbank to prevent erosion during the rainy season.

  • Soldiers worked quickly to fascine the ditch before the enemy arrived.

  • To stabilize the muddy path, workers fascined it with bundles of brushwood.

Surface Forms

fascine infinitive
fascined past
fascined past participle
fascining present participle
fascines third person singular

Etymology

Fascine as a verb also comes from the Latin fascis meaning 'bundle'. So to fascine is to place or fasten bundles of brushwood to strengthen or fill a ditch or bank.