Wordie: Revetment

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(n): a structure or object that impedes free movement

(n): a facing (usually masonry) that supports an embankment

(n): a protective covering that protects the outside of a building

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about 1 year ago tallpaul said: a facing, usually stone, masonry or concrete, placed on a cliff or embankment. Used to absorb the energy of incoming water, also

Found in the poem 'Sea-Fret' by Robert Robertson from his collection Swithering

'percussive waves
crash and recoil
at the base of the cliff,
slow and attritional
under the east salient,
scathing the stone revetment'

The poem describes a gun emplacement/fortification at Tynemouth Priory, so here the word carries echoes of both its meanings. Else where Robertson uses words echoing to tie the modern secular usage and the ancient religious usage of the site together. See Claustral

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