FASCINE (from the

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Lat. fascina, fascis, a bundle of sticks)  , a large faggot of brushwood used in the revetments of earthworks and for other purposes of military engineering . The British service pattern of fascine is 18 ft. long; it is tied as tightly as possible at short intervals, and the usual diameter is 9 in . Similar bundles of wood formed part of the foundations of the early lake-dwellings, and in modern engineering fascines are used in making rough roads over marshy ground and in building river and sea walls and breakwaters .