Cunette
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /kjuːˈnɛt/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Cunette is a noun meaning (military) A trench dug in a moat to allow for drainage, or as an extra obstacle for attackers.
Meaning
(military) A trench dug in a moat to allow for drainage, or as an extra obstacle for attackers.
Example Sentences
Ford's Ravelin.—Completed in its ditch, ſluices, cunette, aqueducts, ſcarp, and counterſcarp walls; […]
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.
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.
Word Forms
- cunettes
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include cuvette, cavin, crotchet, cunnie, cunny, culette.
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