revetment.

A facing or covering that supports or protects a bank, slope, embankment or structure.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• stone revetment
• riverbank revetment

On the page

The stone revetment separated the path from the steep bank.

The map marked the riverbank revetment where the current approached the road.

Usage notes

Primary category: architecture / spatial description. Forms: Singular revetment; plural revetments. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: precise built-space description, structural component naming, spatial orientation, interior material description. Disciplines: fiction writing, architectural description, advanced descriptive English. Commonness: uncommon.