A fascine (pronounced /fəˈsiːn/) is a rough bundle of brushwood or other material used for strengthening an earthen structure, or making a path across...
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The fascine knife was a side arm / tool issued to 17th to 19th century light infantry and artillery. It served both as a personal weapon and as a tool...
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A fascine mattress (Dutch: Zinkstuk, literally sink piece), is a large woven mat made of brushwood, typically willow twigs and shoots, used to protect...
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Removal of the turret would also allow six Class 60 trackways or three fascines to be carried on top of the vehicle. The Chieftain tank based "Willich...
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broom hook. In American English a billhook may sometimes be called a "fascine knife". Made on a small scale in village smithies and in larger industrial...
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been modified with mine-rollers. Close-support tanks, bridgelayers, and fascine carriers had been developed elsewhere also. However, the Funnies were the...
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faggot, kid, kide, or kidde being Middle English for firewood in bundles. A fascine (or bavin) is a type of long faggot which is approximately 13 to 20 feet...
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TROJAN AVRE with Full Width Mine Plough and Fascine....
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Trojan AVRE of the Royal Engineers with full-width mine plow and fascine....
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Sabre (fencing) U.S. regulation swords (sabres, and in some instances fascine knives shaped like short swords) Classification of swords List of daggers...
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large crater was filled using an abandoned AVRE tank and several rolls of fascine, which were then covered by a temporary bridge. The beach and nearby streets...
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approach channel to Rotterdam, low, broad, parallel jetties, composed of fascine mattresses weighted with stone, were carried across the foreshore into...
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was used to protect the tracks of a tank from mines. It could also carry fascines, which are large bundles of wood carried on the front of the tank and dropped...
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sidearms by dismounted units, although these were gradually replaced by fascine knives and sword bayonets as the century went on. Although there was extensive...
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have been a practical weapon for combat without a shield, but served as a fascine knife or a machete to clear fields for the guns. It also served for other...
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hurricane bombardment, against two German divisions. The machines carried fascines on their fronts to bridge trenches and the 13-foot-wide (4 m) German tank...
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shortage of fuel led them to start dismantling their defensive gabions and fascines. In February 1855, the Russians attacked the allied base at Eupatoria,...
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commander of the 44th Regiment of Foot, had forgotten the ladders and fascines needed to cross the eight-foot-deep and fifteen-foot-wide canal and scale...
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Vasa. The word "vase" in the 17th century had the primary meaning of "fascine" and also "sheaf" in a heraldic context. Vasa became the most widely recognised...
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guns Puteaux 37mm M1915 Bayonet Billhook Brass knuckles Claymore E-tool Fascine knife French Nail French raiding hammer Hatchet Mace Machete Pickaxe handle...
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Willow hedge strengthened with fascines for the limitation of runoff, northern France...
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estimated to be 42,000 for the Union and 28,000 for the Confederates. Fascine Trench Breastworks, Petersburg, Va. – NARA – 524792. Although identified...
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by the Royal Engineers. Chieftain Fascine Layer Four turret-less vehicles specially converted for laying fascines Chieftain Marksman Self-propelled anti-aircraft...
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which can be used to excavate areas, move obstacles, and deposit the fascine that the Trojan carries at its rear. The Trojan is usually also fitted...
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9 April 2018. Sasportas, Olivier. "Le Nazi chic, la nouvelle mode qui fascine de jeunes Chinois" [Nazi chic, the new fashion that fascinates young Chinese]...
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it binds to itself faggot or fagot, branch or twig, or bundle of these Fascine, bundle of brushwood used in civil and military engineering Fasces, ancient...
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Hanger or wood-knife, a type of hunting sword or infantry sabre; Certain fascine knives: Model 1832 Foot Artillery Sword, is a short sword designed after...
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carrying fascines. In the right hand lane all went well; the centre lane was blocked by a knocked-out flail tank, but the AVREs completed a fascine crossing...
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disable an enemy tank. Anti-tank trenches can be defeated by use of a fascine. Anti-tank ditches can also be crossed by use of bridges either laid by...
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Embrasure: an opening in a parapet or casemate, for a gun to fire through. Fascine is a bundle of sticks or similar, were used in military defences for revetting...
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