revetment

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They also installed 1,600 feet of new revetment to stabilize the banks of the new channels and prevent the river from wandering too close to the highway.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 19, 2023

As part of efforts to defend the castle 5,000 tonnes of granite boulders have been put in place to form a barrier, or "revetment".

From BBC • Sep. 22, 2022

We reached a stone revetment along the river where four workmen were building a concrete bridge.

From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2022

Trout fishing has been excellent drifting the south revetment wall on shrimp.

From Washington Times • Mar. 18, 2020

Part of the revetment had fallen; there was a yard of broken path covered with fern and bracken, then a drop of some hundred feet to the torrent below.

From The Unveiling of Lhasa by Candler, Edmund