coffers

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For over a century the corps built cofferdams, structures that hold back rivers and enable workers to construct dams on dry river bottoms.

From New York Times • Aug. 18, 2014

Cleveland is seriously considering a $1.2 billion Lake Erie jetport built on 1,050 acres of landfill and protected by breakwaters, dikes and cofferdams.

From Time Magazine Archive

She limped to Constantinople where German engineers built cofferdams around her, patched her up and sent her to sea again where she promptly bumped into another mine.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was a sloppy job, but by using pumps and sheet-metal cofferdams, they reached the deep tombs that the Comacchiesi had missed.

From Time Magazine Archive

The cost of this marsh excavation including cofferdams, underdraining, pumping, etc., was $4.60 per cu. yd.

From Concrete Construction Methods and Costs by Gillette, Halbert Powers