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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 proposed facilities included a shore-parallel open piled quay over an armoured revetment and a shore-perpendicular open piled pier.
He spearheaded a campaign to clean up the area by building a revetment filled with dredged material and other waste products.
A truck came out to the revetment to take us back to the squadron headquarters' hangar for mission debriefing.
The news spread like a chill from revetment, to the ready room, to the tent camp on the hill.
The older wooden revetment consists of posts fixed into the beach with wooden slats between.
The pyramid was then a dummy, made of rubble within a revetment of heavy flint nodules, which was faced with fine limestone.

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