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1622 tr. Iournall Siege Berghen-up-Zoome 37 A Marriner drawing downe with a Boat-hooke, the Gabion-baskets of one of the enemies Rampires.

1633 T. Stafford Pacata Hibernia iii. ii. 291 There was..no good water neere, nor wood for necessary use, or gabion stuffe within three miles of it.

1754 J. Robertson Elements Navigation II. 613 To make a Gabion battery. Along the line pitch'd out for the battery, let the gabions be planted in the places where the merlons are to be.

1846 H. Straith Treat. Fortif. (ed. 4) xx. 417 In making the gabion bridge, each pier consisted of four gabions lashed endways together.

1854 J. M. Burgoyne Diary 11 Aug. in Some Bedfordshire Diaries (1960) (modernized text) 175 On the gabion party all day.

1875 Rep. Chief of Engineers in Rep. Secretary of War 855 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (44th Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 1, Pt. 2) II The contractor for gabion-material has delivered the largest portion of his material this month.

1888 Professional Papers Corps Royal Engineers 13 132 The embrasures in such gabion batteries were obtained by gradually diminishing the number of gabions in the rows in advance of the innermost line.

1915 Illustr. London News 4 Sept. 303 The work may take from two to four hours before the gabion-wall is finished, but with that the outer fortification of the mine-crater is complete.

1974 Proc. 17th Conf. Great Lakes Res. 193 A system of three gabion groynes set up to protect a 122 m long section of coast already subject to severe earth movements.

2001 P. J. G. Ransom Snow, Flood & Tempest x. 155 (caption) Repair works continue by night at the Polmont embankment slip... Gabion baskets are being filled to form a new bank for the burn.