gabion
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A large wire basket filled with stones to stop erosion and hold soil
- noun
- /ˈɡeɪbiən/
- Specialized
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gavión
- They constructed a sturdy gabion wall to protect the village from flooding during heavy rains.
Examples
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Using a gabion filled with earth, the engineers reinforced the hillside to stop landslides.
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The Austins, who more than matched those grants with their own money, built a berm along one bank and gabions—rocky structures placed across a river to slow its flow—on nearby Silver Creek.
Academic text (2005) -
There will be a gabion man.
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This right here is called Gabion Mesh and they create walls out of it.
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The workers filled the gabion with stones to help prevent erosion along the riverbank.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Gabion comes from the Italian gabbione, meaning 'big cage', from gabbia 'cage', and is like the English word 'cage'. A gabion is a basket or wire 'cage' filled with stones to hold soil or protect riverbanks, so the name fits what it does.