Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A wall built to sustain the face of an excavation: opposed to a retaining wall, which sustains material which has-been placed behind it.
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Examples
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The rock throughout the approach was water-bearing to a considerable extent, and a face-wall was built at the sides with free drainage, through rock packing and vitrified and cast-iron drains behind it, to keep this water from flowing over the tops of the bench-walls, and also to keep the lines of conduits dry.
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