noun
definition
A layer of stone, concrete, or other hard material supporting the side of an embankment.
definition
An armoured building that provides protection against bombs.
Examples of revetment in a Sentence
Blocks of dressed stone overgrown by grass lie in regular formation; a series of parallel revetment walls on hills commanding passes exist, as do relics of ancient water-tanks.
The LCP is, from the outside, no more sophisticated than a caravan protected by an earth revetment.
Each mound was encircled by a carefully built stone revetment.
These uses include revetment, ground stabilization and reinforcement, drainage and revegetation.
There are larger enclosures to the north, possibly connected with the farm, with a small moated island which has a stone revetment.
The older wooden revetment consists of posts fixed into the beach with wooden slats between.
A cutting to the north located a possible rampart strengthened by tipped stone with a vertical timber revetment.
A rock revetment was constructed in 1992 in an attempt to address the basic cause of slope instability, i.e. basal wave erosion.
Wattle hurdles for sheep fencing and garden use are available from hurdle makers, but are normally too expensive for bankside revetment work.
Previously the earliest date was AD 52 from a river revetment.
Erosion by wave attack is combated by a wide range of revetment systems.