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What is a gabion?

What is a gabion? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A cylindrical basket or cage of wicker which was filled with earth or stones and used in fortifications and other engineering work (a precursor to the sandbag).
  2. A woven wire mesh unit, sometimes rectangular, made from a continuous mesh panel and filled with stones sometimes coated with polyvinyl chloride.
  3. A porous metal cylinder filled with stones and used in a variety of civil engineering contexts, especially in the construction of retaining walls, the reinforcing of steep slopes, or in the prevention of erosion in river banks.
  4. A knickknack, objet d'art, curiosity, collectable.
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More prosaically, unlike conventional hedge mazes, the gabion cages will require minimal maintenance and should last for 50 years.
The use of gabion baskets involves the placement of baseball to football-sized rock into closed wire cages.
The modular nature of the gabion means that it can be used in a vast array of applications and configurations.
Captain gabion took me by the elbow, and proposed that we should sojourn at the same hotel.
This is followed by the construction of rock containment nets, and retaining gabion or concrete walls to keep the soil stable stable.
Harder methods include installing armoured embankments, gabion baskets, and vertical retaining walls.

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