Crossword clues for fascine
fascine
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fascine \Fas*cine"\, n. [F., fr. L. fascina a bundle of sticks, fr. fascis. See Fasces.] (Fort. & Engin.) A cylindrical bundle of small sticks of wood, bound together, used in raising batteries, filling ditches, strengthening ramparts, and making parapets; also in revetments for river banks, and in mats for dams, jetties, etc.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"bundle used in fortification or as fuel for fire," 1680s, from French fascine, from Latin fascina, from fascis "bundle" (see fasces).\n
Wiktionary
n. (context fortification English) A cylindrical bundle of small sticks of wood, bound together, used in raising battery, filling ditches, strengthening ramparts, and making parapets; also in revetments for river banks, and in mats for dams, jetty, etc.
Wikipedia
A fascine is a rough bundle of brushwood or other material used for strengthening an earthen structure, or making a path across uneven or wet terrain. Typical uses are protecting the banks of streams from erosion, covering marshy ground and so on. In war they are often used to create paths for tanks and other vehicles across uneven terrain.
Usage examples of "fascine".
The Goths soon discovered the supine negligence of the besieged, erected a lofty pile of fascines, ascended the walls in the silence of the night, and entered the defenceless city sword in hand.
Good gabions protected them in front, and there was a plentiful supply of fascines lying all about.
Lieutenant Fytch, his pistol reloaded, wasted the bullet into a fascine.
Veils of dirty smoke swathed the fascine, but the autochthones protected behind it continued to advance the cylinder unhindered.
There were at least forty autochthones behind the fascine, protected by the cylinder's bulk as they pushed it toward the vessel.
If Tadziki had placed his rounds correctly, die autochthones behind one or both die fascines were now flayed corpses.
He hoped that the flames would prevent fresh autochthones from replacing the team pushing the fascine, as would happen if he'd used normal antipersonnel bomblets.
The Buinites had rolled a mass of brush into a fascine four meters in diameter and twenty meters across.
The Buinite fascine staggered under the impact of four rocket shells from the Racontid's launcher.
It caromed through the legs of the centurion with the energy of a builder's dray, scarcely slowing in its crazy, corner-bobbling course into the fascines of the siege ramp which caught it harmlessly.
These things being prepared, he embarked on board small boats and row galleys by night, a considerable number of light infantry and archers, with all their fascines, and immediately after midnight, he marched sixty cohorts drafted from the greater camp and the outposts, to that part of our works which extended toward the sea, and were at the furthest distance from Caesar's greater camp.
To the same place he sent the ships, which he had freighted with the fascines and light-armed troops.
Hither he commended all the fascines to be brought, employing the servants of the army for that purpose, that the soldiers might not be called off from the works.
Accordingly, having poured upon us a great quantity of darts and fire, and destroyed a considerable part of the rampart, they opened the gate which lay over against and within view of Pompey's camp, and sallied out with all their forces, carrying with them fascines to fill up the ditch.
The British would need scaling ladders and fascines to surmount such a fortified line— which they'd have to bring with them across a narrow open field after enduring heavy American fire as soon as they came into range.