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Shore up, as an embankment
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revet
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Word definitions for revet in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. To face, as an embankment, with masonry, wood, or other material.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Revet \Re*vet"\ (r[-e]*v[e^]t"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Revetted ;p. pr. & vb. n. Revetting .] [See Revetment .] (Mil. & Civil Engineering) To face, as an embankment, with masonry, wood, or other material.
Usage examples of revet.
That's revetted with granite, by the way, like the rest of the damned place.
That was either a canal or a stream that had been straightened, revetted, and maintained for years, maybe eons.
Farther back, under cover of the line of filled gabions, the besiegers were revetting their breastwork with fascines, six-foot bundles of wood, and farther back still they were building the whole thing solid with earth dug from a trench behind the breastwork.