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Fascine
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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(from the Lat. fascina, fascis, a bundle of sticks), a large faggot of brushwood used in the revetments of earthworks and for other purposes of military engineering. The British service pattern of fascine is 18 ft. long; it is tied as tightly as possible at short intervals, and the usual diameter is 9 in. Similar bundles of wood formed part of the foundations of the early lake-dwellings, and in modern engineering fascines are used in making rough roads over marshy ground and in building river and sea walls and breakwaters.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Fascine'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/f/fascine.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Fascine'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/f/fascine.html. 1910.
