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gabion|ˈgeɪbɪən|
Forms: 6–7 gabbion(e, 7 gab(b)yon, 6– gabion.
[a. F. gabion, ad. It. gabbione augmentative of gabbia cage:—L. cavea. Cf. It. gaggia = F. cage:—cavea: see cage.]
1. A wicker basket, of cylindrical form, usually open at both ends, intended to be filled with earth, for use in fortification and engineering.
1579Digges Stratiot. 113 Graund Maunds, or Gabbions. 1598Barret Theor. Warres v. iv. 137 To place and fill the gabbions; to digge earth for the same. 1625Massinger New Way v. i, With these gabions guarded, Unload my great artillery. 1656Davenant Siege Rhodes i. Dram. Wks. 1873 III. 289 More gabions, and renew the blinds. 1747Gentl. Mag. 437 The sapper..putting the earth which he diggs up into the gabion. 1828J. M. Spearman Brit. Gunner (ed. 2) 229 There is also a smaller description of gabions, in the form of a frustum of a cone. 1874Knight Dict. Mech. I. 932 Gabions filled with stones are used in civil engineering as defences for starlings of bridges. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. V. lvii. 131 The gabions and the interstices of the fascines were filled with snow.
¶2. Used fig. (with allusion to quots. 1638) by Scott.
1638Adamson Muses Threnodie (note), The ornaments of his Cabin, which by a Catachrestic name, he usually calleth Gabions. Ibid. (title of piece), Inventarie of the Gabions, in M. George his Cabinet. a1832Scott in Harper's Mag. LXXVIII. (1889) 779 [Gabions are] curiosities of small intrinsic value, whether rare books, antiquities, or small articles of the fine or of the useful arts. 1837Lockhart Scott (1838) VII. 218 Sir Walter..began..to dictate of Laidlaw what he designed to publish in the usual novel shape, under the title of ‘Reliquiæ Trottcosienses, or the Gabions of Jonathan Oldbuck’.
3. attrib. as gabion-battery, gabion stuff; gabion-knife, a knife for cutting the osier twigs in making gabions.
1633T. Stafford Pac. Hib. iii. ii. (1810) 525 Nor wood for necessary use, or gabion stuffe within three miles of it. |