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Gabion [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

In fortification, a large basket of wickerwork, of a cylindrical form; filled with earth, and serving to shelter men from an enemy's fire.

Gabion [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A hollow cylinder of wickerwork, like a basket without a bottom. Gabions are made of various sizes, and filled with earth in building fieldworks to shelter men from an enemy's fire.

2. An openwork frame, as of poles, filled with stones and sunk, to assist in forming a bar dyke, etc., as in harbor improvement.

Gabionade [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A traverse made with gabions between guns or on their flanks, protecting them from enfilading fire.

2. A structure of gabions sunk in lines, as a core for a sand bar in harbor improvements.

Gabionage [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The part of a fortification built of gabions.

Gabioned [Participial adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Furnished with gabions.

Gabionnade [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

See Gabionade.