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soil nails

soil nails is the plural of soil nail.

Meaning of soil nail

Noun

soil nail (plural soil nails)

  1. One of a number of rods or bars inserted into pre-drilled holes in a steep slope in order to stabilise it.
    • More than 900 eight-to-ten-metre soil nails are set into the walls adjacent to the north end of the dive-under, to secure its steep concrete-sprayed side.2021 November 17, Tom Allett, “Delving deep into dive-under's details”, in RAIL, number 944, page 49, photo caption

Questions about soil nails

What is soil nails the plural of?
Soil nails is the plural of soil nail.

Words near soil nails in the dictionary

  1. soil microbiology
  2. soil mineralogy
  3. soil moisture deficit
  4. soil moisture deficits
  5. soil nail
  6. soil nails
  7. soil one's pants
  8. soil oneself
  9. soil physics
  10. soil pipe
  11. soil pipes

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