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What is a revetment?

What is a revetment? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A layer of stone, concrete, or other hard material supporting the side of an embankment.
  2. An armoured building that provides protection against bombs.
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The older wooden revetment consists of posts fixed into the beach with wooden slats between.
This revetment was decorative as well as functional, for the cones shielded the core of sun-dried bricks from rain and wind.
Eastwood Park remained a significant achievement for them, although its revetment wall meant that the area was not meant as beachfront land.
The Chinamen come out of their houses and stand on the revetment to watch us pass.
Also in the barrow ditches were woodchips and offcuts from the construction of the mound's timber revetment.
A truck came out to the revetment to take us back to the squadron headquarters' hangar for mission debriefing.

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