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Dike component
Answer for the clue "Dike component ", 7 letters:
sandbag
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. a bag, filled with sand, that can be used to weigh something down, to make a defensive wall against flooding etc, or as a weapon vb. 1 To construct a wall of sandbags (around something). 2 (context transitive English) To strike someone with a sandbag ...
Usage examples of sandbag.
As I parked in front of the sandbagged hootch, one of the new guys burst through the door and ran toward me.
Sandbags lined the top of the container, the cloth sacks bristling with deadly pungi sticks made from sharpened bamboo.
So as soon as she was romping around the sands of her pen, he began getting her used to a weight on her back, improvising a harness and a small sandbag at first, then when he discovered where the dragonet harnesses were kept, purloining one and using that.
The sandbag would swing behind them and knock them off their horse, and the next time they tilted at Sir Quintain the painful lesson prompted their flawlessness.
He saw light field artillery in sandbagged em placed detachments, together with mortars in their redoubts an armed with RPG sockets, the mobile hand-held stalwarts of the guerrilla arsenal: All the troops he saw seemed to be cheerful and of high morale, well fed and equipped.
With the expertise of long practice, she spun Claudia around and thrust her face hard against the sandbagged wall of the bunker, snapping the manacles on one wrist as she did so, then pulling both claudia,s arms behind her back and locking the second cuff on her other wrist.
Beyond the outer defensive lines the gunships were laagered in separate sandbagged emplacements.
Alphonso went through the plan step by step, illustrating wi lo red pebbles how the missile teams would move into position and he in readiness five hundred meters from the perimeter of the gunship laager, two teams confronting each sandbagged emplacement.
Suddenly Sean was there again, and even at that distance he appeared a heroic figure, balancing easily on the sandbagged parapet in the ruddy glow of the flames.
The workshops and fuel dumps were heavily sandbagged and covered with camouflage netting.
Just ahead he made out the long, drooping rotors of a Hind protruding above the sandbagged wall of its emplacement.
The Russian squealed shrilly as Sean used them as a handle to drag him backward and threw him against the sandbagged side wall of the emplacement.
Sean lined up the pilot, the flight engineer, and the three members of the ground crew against the sandbagged wall.
China took her arm and led her down the steps of the sandbagged, camouflaged dugout.
Then she wiped her mouth with the back of her hand and leaned her forehead against the sandbagged wall.