abutment
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“When you’re plowing the road you need to know where the bridge abutment is and where the expansion joints are so you don’t hook that with a plow,” LaBoe said.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 10, 2021
There was a stone abutment retaining wall with rocks on the other side and the ocean below.
From Slate • Jun. 25, 2021
Sunday when it left the road and struck the abutment, Warwick police said in a statement.
From Washington Times • Oct. 26, 2020
Lines do not exist in nature, so the curved line in the center of the painting is formed by the physical abutment of two canvases.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2018
Far down the course, his assigned lane was going to carry the Husky Clipper under the railroad bridge right at the point where water swirled around behind an abutment and flowed back upriver.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
Vocabulary lists containing abutment
Civil Engineering
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Engineering - High School
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