revetment

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Crews removed about 3,000 feet of levee and revetment — a barrier that slows erosion — built in the 1960s and 1970s.

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

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

From Washington Times • Mar. 18, 2020

The golf cart bounces onto the beach at the base of the northern revetment, and Duffy likes what he sees.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 10, 2017

The climate, however, has a compensating action, in so far as the rapid growth of vegetation soon clothes and protects the scarped slopes, thus acting as a "revetment."

From The Panama Canal and its Makers by Cornish, Vaughan