rip-rap

Plans call for the dyke top be raised about half a metre, concrete floodwall retaining structures will be added, and rip-rap armouring will reinforce the river face of the dyke.

UPDATE Richmond Dykes « Stephen Rees's blog 2009

Plans call for the dyke top be raised about half a metre, concrete floodwall retaining structures will be added, and rip-rap armouring will reinforce the river face of the dyke.

October « 2009 « Stephen Rees's blog 2009

Plans call for the dyke top be raised about half a metre, concrete floodwall retaining structures will be added, and rip-rap armouring will reinforce the river face of the dyke.

23 « October « 2009 « Stephen Rees's blog 2009

Ol 'man Jones and I were fishing off the rip-rap with another elderly, hard headed fisherman, named Skaggs.

Walleye Time. A Lesson In Abnormal Psychology. 2007

I have serious back problems, and walking out on the rip-rap is deadly dangerous for one who has a back like mine.

Walleye Time. A Lesson In Abnormal Psychology. 2007

Use jigs when the wind is blowing into the rip-rap, because the shad are blown up against the rocks.

Walleye Time. A Lesson In Abnormal Psychology. 2007

And through it all, island government, county officials, and state licensing agencies continue to authorize new construction on the coast, bulkheads, seawalls, rip-rap, rock revetments, ever longer piers jutting into intercoastal waterways, and other counter productive thumbs- in-the-dike.

Yet Another Erosion Study Beach Blogger 2006

After scrabbling up the yard or so of rip-rap at the edge of the causeway, Kharl studied the area around him.

Ordermaster Modesitt, L. E. 2005

If you've ever come out of the Port of Miami on a cruise ship, there's this rip-rap wall, actually two of them, one on each side that extends probably a good half a mile just from South Beach right into the water.

CNN Transcript Dec 19, 2005 2005

The glow faded, revealing a causeway, one with a single archway for the stream, and faced with stone rip-rap and paved with the even stones of Defalk.

The Shadow Sorceress Modesitt, L. E. 2001