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单词 fascine
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fascinen.

Brit. /faˈsiːn/, U.S. /fəˈsin/
Forms: 1600s– fascine, 1700s fachine, 1700s faschine, 1700s–1800s facine.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French fascine.
Etymology: < French fascine bundle of brushwood or sticks (1562; early 13th cent. in Old French as faissine ), such a bundle as used in military fortifications (1577) < classical Latin fascīna bundle of sticks < fascis bundle (see fasces n.) + -īna -ine suffix4.Compare Italian fascina (13th cent.).
1.
a. Military. A long, cylindrical bundle of twigs or brushwood, tightly bound together at short intervals; used for various purposes, such as the construction of defensive works, or the negotiation (now esp. by an armoured vehicle) of a ditch or other obstacle. Now chiefly: a similar bundle of plastic pipes.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > shelter or screen > [noun] > gabions or fascines
bavin1528
gabion1544
grand-maund1579
saucisse1604
sconce-korf1629
cannon-basket1630
sausage1645
chandelier1664
fascine1669
musket-basket1688
saucisson1702
fascinery1751
basket1753
1669 tr. Duc de Guise Mem. iii. 383 I had sent Pione Captain of the Lazares with thirty of his men to carry Fascines [Fr. fascines], and serve as Pioniers at this little siege.
1776 C. Lee in J. Sparks Corr. Amer. Revol. (1853) I. 158 They are employed in making fascines..for constructing three redoubts.
1862 J. G. Benton Course Instr. Ordnance & Gunnery (ed. 2) vii. 375 The incendiary properties of pitched fascines may be increased by dipping the ends in melted rock-fire.
1933 R. E. Jones et al. Fighting Tanks since 1916 iii. 20 The three wide trenches of this system..were too wide to be crossed by the Mark IV tanks unaided; hence 350 fascines, weighing about one and a half tons each, had to be built.
2008 Mirror (Sc. ed.) (Nexis) 8 Mar. 23 Whilst under very intense accurate fire for a considerable amount of time, he carefully placed a fascine into a ditch enabling an armoured advance.
b. More widely: a bundle of twigs, brushwood, straw, or (now chiefly) plastic pipes, tied or woven together. Frequently Civil Engineering: such a bundle used in construction, or for strengthening the sides of embankments, ditches, or trenches.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood in specific form > [noun] > bundle or pile of wood
kida1350
wood-cast1483
woodpile1552
babbin1665
fascine1694
brush-heap1819
brush-pile1865
1694 tr. L. Moréri Great Hist. Dict. at Gauls Each Soldier carry'd his Bundle of Straw, or a Fascine [Fr. fascine], to sit upon.
1723 tr. F. C. Weber Present State Russia I. 351 A large Dike or Peer made of Fachines and Earth.
1866 J. E. Lee tr. F. Keller Lake Dwellings 70 The upper beds of fascines..lock into one another at the ends and form one continuous mass.
1943 Triumphs of Engin. 156/1 (in figure) Track laid on 40 ft. sleepers. Brushwood mats. Whole trees. More stone. Fascines. Broken stone.
2000 Land & Water Sept. 63/1 For the majority of the eroded areas, live stakes, live fascines, and coconut fiber blankets were integrated to stabilize the slopes and reduce any future erosion.
2. figurative and in extended use; esp. something which acts or is employed as a defence. Now rare.
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the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > [noun] > means of protection or defence
hornc825
shieldc1200
warranta1272
bergha1325
armour1340
hedge1340
defencec1350
bucklerc1380
protectiona1382
safety1399
targea1400
suretyc1405
wall1412
pavise?a1439
fencec1440
safeguard?c1500
pale?a1525
waretack1542
muniment1546
shrouda1561
bulwark1577
countermure1581
ward1582
prevention1584
armourya1586
fortificationa1586
securitya1586
penthouse1589
palladium1600
guard1609
subtectacle1609
tutament1609
umbrella1609
bastion1615
screena1616
amulet1621
alexikakon1635
breastwork1643
security1643
protectionary1653
sepiment1660
back1680
shadower1691
aegis1760
inoculation1761
buoya1770
propugnaculum1773
panoply1789
armament1793
fascine1793
protective1827
beaver1838
face shield1842
vaccine1861
zariba1885
wolf-platform1906
firebreak1959
the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > bundle
sheafc725
handfulOE
truss12..
knitch13..
binding1388
bundle1398
faggot1447
bond1483
flaggat1487
bend-fulc1500
litch1538
thrave1606
fascicle1622
fawda1642
nitch1726
fascine1793
fasciculus1816
1793 C. Dibdin Younger Brother I. Pref. p. xxiv I would have them place about fascines of hints, insinuations, and conjectures.
1844 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 586 This fascine of citations, however ingeniously interwoven, is in truth nothing to the purpose... If he may defend himself behind every thing which a Laud or a Cosins may have uttered, his shield will, indeed, be broad enough!
1870 H. Macmillan Bible Teachings iv. 70 The pine is a natural fascine or fortification against the ravages of the elements.
1976 M. S. Peden tr. C. Fuentes Terra Nostra i. 306 The sun's rays began to burn the papers, clustered together in the ring of the lens, a tightly bound fascine of fire.

Compounds

C1. As a modifier, with the sense ‘consisting or made of fascines’.
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1696 E. D'Auvergne Hist. Campagne Flanders, 1695 66 A Battery which the Bavarians made of two pieces of Cannon..which began to fire upon the Enemies lodg'd in the Fascine work at the end of the Line.
1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. xxxiii. 290 A body of sailors, who made themselves masters of..the faschine batteries.
1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam I. iv. 82 To throw a fascine bridge over the marsh.
1866 J. E. Lee tr. F. Keller Lake Dwellings 72 This gentleman..noticed..parts of a fascine platform [Ger. Knittelbodens].
1875 Proc. Inst. Civil Engineers 41 161 In commencing the construction of the dam..the first step was to cover the entire site with a strong fascine mattrass.
2009 Harvard Jrnl. Asiatic Stud. 69 18 The government and people of Hebei were forced to make huge numbers of fascine rolls out of wooden sticks, grass, reeds, bamboo strips, earth, and stone.
C2. As a modifier, with the sense ‘used in making a fascine or fascines’.
ΚΠ
1778 A. Butler Let. 9 Mar. in G. Washington Papers (2004) Revolutionary War Ser. XIV. 110 The whole [of the entrenching-tools] are nearly provided allready but the Fascine Hatchets and Axes.
1859 F. A. Griffiths Artillerist's Man. (ed. 8) xii. 233 Before binding the fascine, it must be compressed with a fascine choaker, which consists of a cord, or chain,..fastened at one end to a lever.., with a loop at the other end.
1870 Daily News 18 Oct. 3/4 The country..affording withies for binding and fascine sticks to any extent.
2010 D. Starbuck Excavating Sutlers' House v. 68 (caption) A fascine knife used for clearing brush.
C3.
fascine dwelling n. Archaeology (somewhat rare) a prehistoric habitation supported on fascines, built over a shallow lake or on marshland; cf. pile-dwelling n. at pile n.1 Compounds 4. [Compare German Faschinenbauten , plural noun (1863 in the source translated in quot. 1866).]
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > other types of dwelling > [noun] > prehistoric dwellings
broch1654
crannog1851
pile-building1863
pile-work1863
fascine dwelling1865
lake-habitation1865
palafitte1866
terramare1866
roundhouse1872
mound dwelling1897
wag1911
wheel-dwelling1931
wheelhouse1935
1865 Gentleman's Mag. Aug. 199 The remarkable fascine dwelling which he described, is at Niederwyl, near Winterthur, to the north of Zurich.
1866 J. E. Lee tr. F. Keller Lake Dwellings 69 The fascine dwellings [Ger. Der Packwerkbau] seem only to have been adopted in lakes of small depth and extent.
1997 J. Walsh Foundations 65 Some lake dwellings were of very peculiar structure, and may be designated fascine dwellings. Instead of a platform, supported on a series of piles, these erections consisted of layers of sticks, or small stems of trees built up from the bottom of the lake, till the structure reached above the water mark; and on this series of layers the main platform for the structures was placed.
fascine dweller n. Archaeology (somewhat rare) a person who lives in a fascine dwelling.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant by type of accommodation > [noun] > inhabitant of lake-dwelling
lake-dweller1863
pile-dweller1875
fascine dweller1878
crannoger1884
lake-man1884
1878 J. E. Lee tr. E. Frank in J. E. Lee tr. F. Keller Lake Dwellings I. (ed. 2) 579 It may be proved that the state of civilisation of the fascine-dwellers exactly coincides with that of the inhabitants of other settlements of the stone age.
2006 Acta Geotechnica Slovenica 3 ii. 35/2 The contribution of fascine dwellers from the Ljubljana marsh to a wider cultural space is also proven by the recent archeological finding, i.e. a wheel and the ax of a two-wheel vehicle, which dates from about 3200 A. D.
fascine horse n. Military a structure on which branches are laid to be bound into fascines (see quot. 1834).
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1834 J. S. Macaulay Treat. Field Fortification 56 The fascine horse is formed with two pickets..driven about 1 foot obliquely into the ground, so as to cross each other at right angles 2 feet above the surface of the earth,..and fastened together at their point of meeting with cord.
2012 M. Cameron Red Knight (e-book ed.) Guilbert sent his men out into the raspberry canes in armour, to cut armloads of the stuff with their swords, and he had the archers lash them in bundles on the sturdy Xs of a pair of fascine horses, cradles made of heavy logs where armloads of brush and prickers could be wrapped tight.
fascine net n. U.S. Obsolete (in Pennsylvania and Maryland) a device for catching fish consisting of a basket-shaped trap made of fascines.
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1871 Amer. Volunteer (Carlisle, Pa.) 28 Sept. Fish Baskets, Eel Wires, Kiddles, Brush and Fascine Nets and other permanently set means of taking fish.
1924 Denton (Maryland) Jrnl. 2 Aug. 7/3 No person or persons shall take, catch, kill, fish or fish for..with any kind of seine or net, stir net, drag net..brush or fascine nets, or by any means or contrivance in the nature of a seine or net or trap.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

fascinev.

Brit. /faˈsiːn/, U.S. /fəˈsin/, New Zealand English /fɛˈsiːn/
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: fascine n.
Etymology: < fascine n.Compare Middle French fessiner, French fasciner (15th cent.).
Originally Military. Now chiefly New Zealand (rare).
transitive. To strengthen (a structure) or fill in (a ditch, trench, etc.) with fascines; to employ fascines in constructing (something).
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > paving and road-building > pave or build roads [verb (transitive)] > fill in gaps in road
stub1765
fascine1780
ballast1836
1780 J. Wilson Jrnl. 29 Apr. in S. Carolina Hist. Mag. (1965) 66 181 At night the Cheeks of the Embrazures for the two 12 Pounders on the right were fascined.
1870 Daily News 29 Nov. The pioneers had..fascined the track.
1971 P. MacLean & B. Joyce Veteran Years N.Z. Motoring xv. 188 Muddy stretches had to be fascined and corduroyed and even the block and tackle came out on occasions.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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