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a component of a building foundation; a basket or wire cage filled with rocks or earth used to fortify a building
1862The Art of WarThey required one million sand-bags and fifty thousand gabions.1914My Days of AdventureStone casements were being roofed with earth, platforms were being prepared for guns, gabions were being set in position at the embrasures, sandbags were being carried to the parapets, stakes were being pointed for the many pièges-à-loups, and smooth earthworks were being planted with an infinity of spikes.1945The CommodoreFarther 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.Labels: Baron Henri de Jomini, C. S. Forester, Ernest Alfred Vizetelly
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