The Collaborative International Dictionary
Enrockment
Enrockment \En*rock"ment\, n. [Pref. en- + rock.] A mass of large stones thrown into water at random to form bases of piers, breakwaters, etc.
Wiktionary
enrockment
n. A layer of stones and rocks laying on the bottom of a sea or lake that provides the base for a pier or breakwater.
Usage examples of "enrockment".
Mennonite preachers, he, here named never to be named again, inspects the dike tops, the enrockment and the groins, and drives off the pigs, because according to the Rural Police Regulations of November 1848, Clause 8, all animals, furred and feathered, are forbidden to graze and burrow on the dike.