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batardeau

batardeau noun: a cofferdam.

Noun

batardeau (plural batardeaus)

  1. A cofferdam.
    • An experiment was tried during the day upon the dykes of the citadel, which, as before stated, are fed by means of a sluice opposite the Scheldt, and separated from those of the city by a batardeau.1833, The United Service Journal and Naval and Military Magazine
  2. A wall built across the ditch of a fortification, with a sluice gate to regulate the height of water in the ditch on both sides of the wall.

Forms of batardeau

pluralbatardeaus

Origin of batardeau

From French batardeau.

Questions about batardeau

What does batardeau mean?
Batardeau means a cofferdam.
What part of speech is batardeau?
Batardeau is a noun.
What is the plural of batardeau?
The plural of batardeau is batardeaus.

Words near batardeau in the dictionary

  1. Batar Creek
  2. batarang
  3. batarangs
  4. Bataraza
  5. batard
  6. batardeau
  7. batardeaus
  8. batards
  9. Batas
  10. Batasan
  11. Batasan Hills

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