📚 noun • entry_id 38532
retaining wall
Meanings (ES + gloss)
muro de contención
Any of several structures used to restrain a vertical-faced mass of earth.
Masonry flying arches strutting the retaining walls in Chorley cutting, Manchester-Blackpool line, L.M.S.R.
The viaduct is joined to the embankment by retaining walls, which have been strengthened since they were constructed by the addition of stay bolts extending right through the emban…
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