| 释义 |
fascine, n.|fæˈsiːn|
Also 8 fachine, 9 facine.
[a. F. fascine, ad. L. fascīna, f. fascis a bundle.]
1. Mil. A long cylindrical faggot of brush or other small wood, firmly bound together at short intervals, used in filling up ditches, the construction of batteries, etc. Usually in pl.
a1688Sir T. Morgan Relat. Progr. France (1699) 14 The major-general..ordered the two battalions..each man to take up a long fascine upon their musquets and pikes. 1692Lond. Gaz. No. 2807/2 Orders are given to provide a great number of Fascines, in order to storm the Castle of Ebernburg. 1776C. Lee in Sparks Corr. Amer. Rev. (1853) I. 158 They are employed in making fascines..for constructing three redoubts. 1801Wellington in Gurw. Desp. I. 361 They ought to be provided with facines to fill a part of the ditch. 1880Kinglake Crimea VI. ix. 241 Of round-shot, of gabions and fascines.
b. transf. in various non-military uses, esp. in Civil Engin.
1712E. Cooke Voy. S. Sea 412 He..made a Sort of floating Island of Fascines, Earth, and other Materials. 1723Pres. State Russia I. 351 A large Dike or Peer made of Fachines and Earth. 1852Burnell Rudim. Hydraulic Engineering ii. 94 The lower part of the majority of wooden jetties is..covered either by a mass of concrete, of loose stones, or of fascines. 1866Lee tr. Keller's Lake Dwell. Switz. 70 The upper beds of fascines..lock into one another at the ends and form one continuous mass.
2. transf. and fig.
1844H. Rogers Ess. (1860) III. 121 This fascine of citations..is in truth nothing to the purpose. 1870H. Macmillan Bible Teach. iv. 70 The pine is a natural fascine or fortification against the ravages of the elements.
3. attrib.
a. Suitable for fascines, as fascine-stick.
b. Consisting or made of fascines, as fascine-battery, fascine-bridge, fascine-platform; fascine-dwelling, a lacustrine habitation supported on fascines; hence fascine-dweller; fascine-horse (see quot.).
1748Smollett Rod. Rand. xxxiii. (1804) 213 A body of sailors who made themselves masters of..the *fascine batteries. 1857S. Osborn Quedah xii. 150 When clearing away the jungle to construct the fascine battery.
1796Stedman Surinam I. iv. 82 To throw a *fascine bridge over the marsh.
1882R. Munro Anc. Scot. Lake-dwellings 12 The civilisation of the *fascine-dwellers.
1866Lee tr. Keller's Lake Dwell. Switz. 69 The *fascine dwellings seem only to have been adopted in lakes of small depth and extent.
1859F. A. Griffiths Artil. Man. (ed. 9) 254 A *fascine horse is formed with two pickets..driven about 1 foot obliquely into the ground, so as to cross each other at right angles 2 feet above the surface of the earth; and they are fastened together at their point of meeting with cord.
1866Lee tr. Keller's Lake Dwell. Switz. 72 This gentleman..noticed..parts of a *fascine platform.
1870Daily News 18 Oct., The country..affording withies for binding and *fascine sticks to any extent.
Hence faˈscine v. trans. to fill up with fascines.
1870Daily News 29 Nov., The pioneers had..fascined the track. |