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
Construction vehicles will use the road when building the abutment of a bridge that will carry light-rail trains over Colesville Road, Julian said.
From Washington Post • Dec. 6, 2019
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
I run down the street, vault over the bridge railing, and climb down the abutment to the creek.
From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
Vocabulary lists containing abutment
Civil Engineering
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Engineering - High School
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