gabion

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈɡeɪ.bɪən/

名詞

歴史的

(historical, military) A cylindrical basket or cage of wicker which was filled with earth or stones and used in fortifications and other engineering work (a precursor to the sandbag).

日本語の意味

歴史的・軍事的な用途で用いられた、籐などで作られた円筒形のかごまたはケージに、土や石を詰めたもの。要塞やその他の工事作業の補強材として、砂袋の前身ともなるもの。

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At the battlefield museum, the curator displayed a gabion to show how engineers once reinforced fortifications with wicker and earth.

戦場博物館で、学芸員は城塞の強化にかつて使われた土や石を詰めた柳製の籠を展示した。

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意味（1）

(historical, military) A cylindrical basket or cage of wicker which was filled with earth or stones and used in fortifications and other engineering work (a precursor to the sandbag).

When our artillery came before the walls of the town, the English within the walls killed some of our men, and several pioneers who were making gabions. And seeing they were so wounded that there was no hope of curing them, their comrades stripped them, and put them still living inside the gabions, which served to fill them up.

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意味（2）

A woven wire mesh unit, sometimes rectangular, made from a continuous mesh panel and filled with stones sometimes coated with polyvinyl chloride.

意味（3）

(civil engineering) A porous metal cylinder filled with stones and used in a variety of civil engineering contexts, especially in the construction of retaining walls, the reinforcing of steep slopes, or in the prevention of erosion in river banks.

意味（4）

A knickknack, objet d'art, curiosity, collectable.

Reliquiae Trotcosienses: Or, the Gabions of the Late Jonathan Oldbuck Esq. of Monkbarns — title of unfinished novel by Walter Scott.

詳細

gabions （ plural ）