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
In 2020, a 16-inch city water main burst at a bridge abutment over I-40 and dumped roughly 500,000 gallons on the freeway, a main freight route from California ports.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 20, 2021
There was a stone abutment retaining wall with rocks on the other side and the ocean below.
From Slate • Jun. 25, 2021
All eight had been on a 37-foot boat at the mouth of the Patapsco River when the boat struck the abutment, shearing off a piece of the bow above the waterline.
From Washington Post • Jul. 26, 2015
Putting the jesses, leash, and ring in my belt pouch, I follow Tenmile Creek to the bridge and climb the abutment.
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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