单词：gabions
n. A hollow cylinder of wickerwork, like a basket without a
bottom. Gabions are made of various sizes, and filled with earth in
building fieldworks to shelter men from an enemy's fire.
n. An openwork frame, as of poles, filled with stones and
sunk, to assist in forming a bar dyke, etc., as in harbor improvement.
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