RETAININGWALL

Retaining wall

Retaining walls are structures designed to restrain soil to unnatural slopes. They are used to bound soils between two different elevations often in areas of terrain possessing undesirable slopes or in areas where the landscape needs to be shaped severely and engineered for more specific purposes like hillside farming or roadway overpasses.

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retaining wall

Noun

  1. any of several structures used to restrain a vertical-faced mass of earth


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