A bundle of brushwood or light underwood, such as is used in bakers' ovens, differing from a faggot in being bound with only one withe or band…

A container, typically a basket of wicker or brushwood (later sometimes of other materials), cylindrical in shape and open at both ends, designed to…

a gabion.

= saucisson, n. 3.

a gabion.

A cylindrical basket or other similar container filled with earth, stones, etc., and used in fortifications; = gabion, n. 1a.

Military. = saucisse, n., saucisson, n. 3.

Military. ‘A wooden frame, which was filled with fascines, to form a traverse in sapping’ (Stocqueler Mil. Encycl.), and cover the sappers.

Military. A long, cylindrical bundle of twigs or brushwood, tightly bound together at short intervals; used for various purposes, such as the…

a basket filled with earth, used as a shield from behind which to fire a musket (see quot. 1704).

Military. A large fascine.

Fascines collectively; construction work composed of fascines. Formerly also: †fencing consisting of a wooden framework interlaced with twigs or…

Military. A gabion.