| 单词 | revet |
| 例句 | Then I took a boat trip on the municipal water gardens and noticed that the canal banks were held up by wooden revetting, just like the trenches. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks 2012-07-06T21:43:01Z To secure enough votes, he had to promise hardline conservatives including Mr. Gaetz that he revet to the one-member threshold. GOP infighting erupts over rewriting rules to oust speaker 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z The Police Regulations, which govern officers' behaviour, will also be changed to allow police officers who fail revetting checks to be dismissed. Police officers to face quicker sackings for misconduct in England and Wales 2023-08-30T04:00:00Z The bunkers were frightening, with players unsure if the ball would settle in the middle or be up against the revetted, sodden walls. Crowd favorite Fleetwood shares British Open lead with McIlroy among the survivors 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z Greens, mostly long and thin or wide and shallow, are guarded by revetted pot bunkers. Ranking: World's 100 Greatest Golf Courses - Golf Digest 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z “If we wanted to do revetted bunkers, this was our only option,” Cochran said. Trump's Business Past at Odds With Rhetoric on Trade 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z A kind of tunnel had been formed under the sand, about four feet wide and six feet high, revetted by wooden beams. The Fire-Gods A Tale of the Congo 2012-03-26T02:00:32.267Z You can revet your trench parapet with it if you like—or give it to the Wadegos to poison their arrows with. Cupid in Africa 2011-09-28T02:00:21.467Z In modern fortification if cupolas and deep revetted ditches were essential to permanent defences, the dividing line would be equally clear. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z In the night there was much patrolling and bursts of machine-gun fire, and a few snipers, and enormous labours at the 'improvement of the line,' wiring and revetting, and exquisite work with sand-bags. The Secret Battle 2011-02-06T03:00:59.983Z The faces of the solid ground and the sides of the causeways are revetted with wattle-work. The Christian Church in These Islands before the Coming of Augustine Three Lectures Delivered at St. Paul's in January 1894 The inner narthex of the church formed a magnificent vestibule 205 ft. long by 26 ft. wide, reveted with marble slabs and glowing with mosaics. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 2 "Constantine Pavlovich" to "Convention" Its walls seem to have been formerly revetted with marble. Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture Interior and other Defences.—This work, however, had some of its salient points ... cut off by earthen lines of parapet, steeply revetted externally, and so traced as to serve for traverses to the interior. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z As a rule the external faces of all important buildings were revetted with very hard and well burnt bricks. A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 Deep trenches usually impossible, and even shallow trenches likely to be filled with water; defensive works will be principally parapets revetted on both sides. The Economic Aspect of Geology A working party had been out repairing a firing step and revetting the trench. Through St. Dunstan's to Light When trenches are to be occupied for any length of time, they must be revetted. Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition Something had to be extemporized, and fortunately for them they had wet ditches to take the place of high revetted walls. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z Then, at various places, on commanding points, were erected strong redoubts for artillery, floored, and revetted on the inner walls with thick and strong green lumber and timbers. The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865 Trenches built in it require little revetting; very favorable for cave shelters, but requires hard rock excavation. The Economic Aspect of Geology In fortification, the outer side of the ditch next the country; it is usually of less height, and less strongly revetted than the escarp, the side which forms the face of the rampart. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. Welch brought back a revetting stake from the new German trench. Q.6.a and Other places Recollections of 1916, 1917 and 1918 This was an outwork usually semicircular in plan, built of earth consolidated with timber and revetted The bulwark. with hurdles. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z Trenches, heavily revetted with sandbags and protected by barbed wire, had been dug and were thinly manned, the main portions of the garrisons being sheltered in tents pitched in convenient hollows. The 28th: A Record of War Service in the Australian Imperial Force, 1915-19, Vol. I Egypt, Gallipoli, Lemnos Island, Sinai Peninsula A tunneled, revetted, embrasured and battlemented citadel filled with rusty armor and broken lances. The Short Life In the winter, however, under stress of rain and snow, the dugouts fell in, together with the sides of the trench, which, from lack of material, could not be efficiently revetted. The War Service of the 1/4 Royal Berkshire Regiment (T. F.) Unfortunately the trenches were not revetted, and when the frost broke we came to think less of them and travelled as much as possible across the open. Q.6.a and Other places Recollections of 1916, 1917 and 1918 "Oh! that's a little higher up," said he, and he led me to a wide revetted well about fifty feet deep, at the bottom of which, reflecting the sky, shone the water like a mirror. Scientific American Supplement, No. 1157, March 5, 1898 The trenches were at least six feet deep and excavated in a kind of conglomerate, which needed very little revetting and was a good bullet or splinter stopper. The 28th: A Record of War Service in the Australian Imperial Force, 1915-19, Vol. I Egypt, Gallipoli, Lemnos Island, Sinai Peninsula Near the lines they had to leave the roads for the shelter of some communication trench or deep cut in the mud, revetted at the sides with wire to hinder it from 23collapsing inwards. The Old Front Line Communication trenches in this sector were the best we ever met, floorboarded and revetted practically throughout their entire length. The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 History of the 1/8th Battalion Parties of D.C.L.I. were daily at work upon the latter, duckboarding and revetting, and completed a fine pioneers' job right up to Hessian. The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry This was practically the beginning of the end of our long journey, and here we rested a few hours, once more drinking our fill of pure sparkling water from its revetted wells. Scientific American Supplement, No. 1157, March 5, 1898 The Lyle's Post and Christmas Hill trenches were in sand, and required almost complete revetting. The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918 Their sides were revetted, or held from collapsing, by strong wickerwork. The Old Front Line The earthen walls had been revetted with wire chicken-netting, and instead of tramping through ankle-deep mud, we had beneath our feet neat walks of corduroy. Italy at War and the Allies in the West The bottom, which would soon wear away, is revetted with rough planks and paved with hard stones, weighing ten to twenty pounds, the grain being placed vertically. To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative The men were very quick about getting down, and after the first night they were practically working in safety for the remaining four or five days necessary to complete the sandbag revetting. The Fife and Forfar Yeomanry and 14th (F. & F. Yeo.) Battn. R.H. 1914-1919 This was a trench revetted by sand bags, running some miles to the east of and running parallel to the Canal. The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918 It ran via the Cabaret Rouge into the Talus des Zouaves, most of the way revetted with a wonderful "wedding arch" revetment, and thence to the front line, passing the left Poste de Commandant. The Fifth Leicestershire A Record Of The 1/5th Battalion The Leicestershire Regiment, T.F., During The War, 1914-1919. Nowhere had anyone seen trenches so well revetted and so neatly constructed as those occupied by this French regiment. The Story of the "9th King's" in France Many of the embrasures were revetted with the common boiler iron ships' water-tanks filled with earth. Elements of Military Art and Science Or, Course Of Instruction In Strategy, Fortification, Tactics Of Battles, &C.; Embracing The Duties Of Staff, Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, And Engineers; Adapted To The Use Of Volunteers And Militia; Third Edition; With Critical Notes On The Mexican And Crimean Wars. The model trenches with the latest improvements in plan, revetting, gun-emplacements, sally-ports, and the rest, spread through the sandy soil; the musketry ranges, bombing and bayonet schools are of the most recent and efficient type. The War on All Fronts: England's Effort Letters to an American Friend But no trench in sand is the faintest use unless it is revetted. The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918 Always dig to full depth before beginning to revet, as it is impossible to dig deeper afterwards without loosening the revetting. Military Instructors Manual The trenches, which were in a state of decay after the frosts and rains of the winter, had to be duckboarded and revetted. The Story of the "9th King's" in France Then there are various indents to fill up—scrawled on a wobbly writing-block with a blunt indelible pencil by the light of a guttering candle—for ammunition, and sandbags, and revetting material. The First Hundred Thousand Kúblái caused the sides of the embankments to be revetted with stone, in order to prevent the earth giving way. The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 There was no suggestion of revetting; probably there were not more than twenty sandbags in the area allotted to the Battalion. The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918 There is nothing more important than the supports used to keep revetting in place. Military Instructors Manual They were revetted with hurdles and planks of timber which were kept in position by iron pickets, which were securely wired to anchor pickets driven sideways into the walls of the trench. The Story of the "9th King's" in France Even if you revet the trenches, it is not easy to drain them. All in It : K(1) Carries On A Continuation of the First Hundred Thousand At Carroll's Island mattresses 125 feet wide have been placed, and the banks revetted with stone from ordinary low water to a 16 foot stage. Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882 It may be set back a short distance from the revetted bank; but it is, in effect, the requisite parapet. Life on the Mississippi, Part 12. With the other forms of revetting some secondary support is required. Military Instructors Manual Close to the north-west is the other, revetted with cut stone, and measuring six metres in diameter. The Land of Midian — Volume 1 The walls are of rubble masonry and mud, revetted with a coating of cement hard as stone, and mixed with small round pebbles. First Footsteps in East Africa They are in the modes of throwing and dismantling pontoon bridges, construction of fascines, gabions, hurdles, etc., and revetting batteries with them. The Colored Cadet at West Point Autobiography of Lieut. Henry Ossian Flipper, first graduate of color from the U. S. Military Academy |
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