broken stones loosely deposited in water or on a soft bottom to provide a foundation and protect a riverbed or river banks from scour: used for revetments, embankments, breakwaters, etc
Word origin
C19: reduplication of rap1
Examples of 'rip-rap' in a sentence
rip-rap
Bio-engineering techniques are used as an alternative to rip-rap.
Posi Sara, Montabonnet Lucas, Recking Alain, Evette André, Bellot Hervé, Ousset Frédéric,Ravanat Xavier, Piton Guillaume, Solari Luca 2018, 'Experimental study of riverbank protection with bio-engineering techniques', E3S Web of Conferenceshttps://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20184005023. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)