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/kjuːˈnɛt/ · noun
(military) A trench dug in a moat to allow for drainage, or as an extra obstacle for attackers..
Ford's Ravelin.—Completed in its ditch, ſluices, cunette, aqueducts, ſcarp, and counterſcarp walls; […]
Nor was anything done at San Pablo except the cutting of two cunettes necessary for working with heavy machinery, and the projection of a plane for a passage under the Panama Railway, by which the excavations made at K. 35.700 could be carried to the banks of the Chagres.
In principle, cunettes are carried out with a view to substituting poor load bearing and highly compressible strata with sand with a view to a) reducing residual settlements and b) improving stability.
Use cunette when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Cunette means (military) A trench dug in a moat to allow for drainage, or as an extra obstacle for attackers..
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Ford's Ravelin.—Completed in its ditch, ſluices, cunette, aqueducts, ſcarp, and counterſcarp walls; […]
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