entrapping

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The improvements carried out consisted in removing snags and all impediments in the channel or along shore, removing sandbars, thus deepening the channel, building wing dams, and riprapping the shores.

From Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes by Folsom, William Henry Carman

Earth $1,142 $0.20 Labor including riprapping 396 0.07 ——— ——     Total $1,538 $0.27 Removing Old Wing Walls: Total.

From Concrete Construction Methods and Costs by Gillette, Halbert Powers

The riprapping was merely a skin on each face with more or less loose spauls mixed with the earth.

From The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin by Walker, James Herbert

Above the hot wharves rose the slope of close stone riprapping, fence against Father Messasebe, who now and then, in spirit of sport or of forgetfulness, reached out for his immemorial tribute of the soil.

From The Law of the Land by Hough, Emerson

They rode to where the forces assembled by Lance were throwing up embankments and riprapping.

From Whispering Smith by Wyeth, N. C. (Newell Convers)