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What is a fascine?

What is a fascine? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (fortification) A cylindrical bundle of small sticks of wood, bound together, used in raising batteries, filling ditches, strengthening ramparts, and making parapets; also in revetments for river banks, and in mats for dams, jetties, etc.
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At Mike Beach on the western flank, a large crater was filled using an abandoned AVRE tank and several rolls of fascine, which were then covered by a temporary bridge.
The weight of a fascine of partially seasoned material will average 140 lbs.
Stroll along the palm-lined Fascine and picnic with a bucket of local prawns on the beach.
Dune wild rye will be planted on the beach, fascine bundles and cuttings will be placed on the top of the cliff, and halfway up the slope.
The general object is to so dispose the brush as to make the fascine of uniform size, strength, and stiffness from end to end.
As woven coir, these nettings have micro fascine action to avoid the carriageof small parts of soil teared out because strength of the rain.

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