gabionedadj.
/ˈɡeɪbɪənd/, U.S. /ˈɡeɪbiənd/ Having, protected with, or constructed from gabions (gabion n. 1a, 1b).figurative in quot. 1659: strengthened as if with gabions.
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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > shelter or screen > [adjective] > having gabions
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gabionized1611
1589 True Coppie Disc. Late Voy. Spaine & Portingale 19 The 4. day were planted vnder the garde of the Cloyster two demie Canons, and two Culuerings against the towne, defended or gabbioned with a crosse wall.
1633 T. Stafford Pacata Hibernia iii. vi. 304 The place will bee so trenched and gabioned, as you must runne upon assured death.
1659 T. Lushington Repetition Serm. in Resurrection Rescued 33 The Soyl was Pick-axe proof, a firm Rock spred out of the Roots of Golgotha, gabion'd and rough-cast with flint.
1853 United Service Mag. Apr. 572 An entrenched camp protected by two gabioned batteries.
1860 W. H. Russell My Diary in India 1858–9 I. xxiii. 378 Floating batteries, strongly parapetted and ‘gabioned’.
1944 Jrnl. Galway Archaeol. & Hist. Soc. 21 19 The weather..was to take a heavy toll of Mountjoy's men in their clay huts and their gabioned trenches round Kinsale.
2001 Chilean Forestry News No. 213 23/1 Soil conservation works of the physico-mechanical type: deviation canals,..sandbag walls, palisades, control dikes and gabioned structures.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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