Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
riprap .
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- verb Present participle of
riprap .
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Examples
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Says John Bailey, head of the The Yellowstone Task Force and owner of the Livingston flyfishermen's mecca, Dan Bailey's Fly Shop: "We have to lessen the need for riprapping by lessening development in the floodplain," he said.
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Three hundred miles of muskeg had to be crossed in an area where they experienced the worst weather in memory with only five days free from rain from June 1st to August 15th, where the heavy machinery would sink almost out of sight and special equipment had to be used and miles and miles of riprapping done; all of these conditions were conquered by the ingenuity of the pipeline builders.
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The riprapping was merely a skin on each face with more or less loose spauls mixed with the earth.
The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin James Herbert Walker
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Above the hot wharves rose the slope of close stone riprapping, fence against Father Messasebe, who now and then, in spirit of sport or of forgetfulness, reached out for his immemorial tribute of the soil.
The Law of the Land Emerson Hough 1890
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