Noun
A hollow cylinder of wickerwork, like a basket without a bottom. Gabions are made of various sizes, and filled with earth in building fieldworks to shelter men from an enemy's fire.
An openwork frame, as of poles, filled with stones and sunk, to assist in forming a bar dyke, etc., as in harbor improvement.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe contractor executed the project for the full stretch of 423.2m gabion wall and was eventually paid Nu 11.232M out of which Nu 7M was appropriated from road construction to Khariphu. Source: Internet
The technology of the gabion - a cage, cylinder, or box filled with rocks, concrete, sand or soil for use in civil engineering, road building, and landscaping - can be taught at the Seychelles Institute for Technology (SIT) should the demand be there. Source: Internet